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Cherishing the Earth with Toria Betson 
Walking through the woods, looking for inspiration for this article, I
found myself wishing it were to be written in the spring instead of
fall. I found it difficult to think about 'openings' while my feet were
crunching on the dried-up leaves the trees had shed. Now if it
were springtime… budding fresh green and new… that would be the time
to talk about openings! I sat down on a fallen log and began to pick off the burrs clinging
tightly to my jeans, seeds hitchhiking to a new home. All around me, I
noticed seeds still holding onto their branches, seeds blowing in the
wind, seeds falling to the earth, full of potential. Nature has already
begun her next cycle.
I thought about my ancestors, celebrating the New Year as the harvest was completed. They saw life as a circle with no end. As the wheel of the year turns, death gives way to life, endings give way to beginnings and closings give way to openings. What better time to celebrate newness than after the harvest. This was their time for looking back at the previous year, and ahead to the new. Of course, they had to look ahead and make preparations; their survival through the winter depended upon it. From the time I was a child, I saw fall as a time of ending, a time of
dying. No more fun outdoors in the sun, it was time to go back to
school. This was my misconception. My ancestors perceived things
differently. They saw this as a time of preparing, a time of waiting
patiently. They understood there was much out of sight where I was
seeing only the surface. How many other things have I allowed myself to
be blinded to, by my own perceptions? I have long understood
my old beliefs need to be questioned, but this seems different. This is
about how I see or perceive things. What are my plans for this New Year, this new cycle? I plan to identify and weed out my misconceptions. I want to plant the
seeds of openness. I want to be open to all possibilities. This year I
plan to get 'myself' out of the way and allow myself to be open to a
much larger world. I want to learn to view the world, not from of place
of uncaring, but a place of objectivity, of non-judgment. My! I
feel lighter and more open already! As mother earth begins her next cycle; I wish you all an abundance of
happy beginnings! |
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