While journeying through cancer, Debbie embraced Nature as her companion, teacher and healer. She recognized Nature as the storyteller and was eager for new revelations with each meditation. Enjoy her journal reflections.
How delicious to see the squirrels
romp and play in the leafless trees.
Perfectly balanced they jump
from one branch to another.
Always looking for a way
around the bird seed baffles
they follow a “squirrel highway”
outside my window
to the food source.
How do they know what thin branch
will hold their weight as they leap
crisscrossing from branch to branch?
Quick, nimble and surefooted
are these playful tenacious animals.
Lessons from the squirrels:
-never give up.
-trust your instincts.
-play is elemental to living.
-stay grounded to the earth balancing
the needs of your body, mind and spirit.
Deborah Marqui
Reflection
In this busy, doing society how much time do you take to play? Or do you judge play rather worthless because there is no tangible result? Are you addicted to doing rather than being? Our body, mind and spirit need a rest from all this doing.
"Life is so full of meaning and purpose, so full of beauty beneath its covering that you will find earth cloaks your heaven. Courage then to claim it: that is all!" –Fra Giovanni