Yesterday I visited a friend at a Skilled Nursing facility in San Rafael.  Everyone was lovely, and I helped the physical therapist with rehab for my friend which was minimal and painful movement in her condition.  The physical therapist emphasized touch, intention, and connection.  She said to imagine the bones coming together to heal, to not speak the intention, but to imagine and visualize the movement.  The body responds to pictures, images.  We visualized water, bones flowing like water.  In visualizing, we touch, heal, connect.

I then went to the Las Gallinas sanitation facility where there are reclamation ponds providing nesting areas and homes for birds, and respite for those who walk around the ponds, sit on benches, and photograph the scenery and birds.  

And as I post, my phone alerts me to an earthquake detected. I’m advised to “Drop, Cover, Hold On, Protect Yourself”. And all seems calm in the moment. I hear my gate rattle but all seems intact. Life. Never dull these days. Invitations to notice and connect with what’s happening abound.