Clearings

The sky has cleared, specially after the rains which for me is like a cleansing time, a nourishing time of essence. How I love the rain! It opens the skies, literally and when there is clearance the sunshine is brighter than ever. The rainbows are more colorful, more playful. Inside my house there are several crystal balls that I hang so when the sunshine enters the house the traces of its light reflect upon the crystal balls and multicolor spots reach the different walls of the house.
In these recent weeks I have started clearing with my roommate the house, dusting, giving away, throwing away those magazines and articles I thought I would get to read one day. They are gone. We are steam cleaning the carpet, painting certain walls and both of us have started dreaming more vividly. Its a good time to ask questions. Its a good time. Its an incredible time of times. The connection that we are feeling, the solidarity that is traveling through the streets is something I have read in books, or studied in school but now I feel it happening in my heart with other hearts.
Now I go to gratitude, my friend Scott Schwenk writes on his blog about gratitude lately and each day when I wake up he has written his share of gratitude and each day I am reminded that its about gratitude (you can read about it in his blog: http://scottschwenk.blogspot.com/2009/12/30-days-of-gratitude-day-9.html). I started imagining that instead of waking up to the bla, bla, bla in my head....I just start by gratitude, just thinking 1 or 2 or 3 things about gratitude, just to experiment and see what happens. Try it for 30 days! So I joined my sister with this. When I bring gratitude into my life the heart expands, when my heart expands it leads. If I tell you how grateful I am to wake up and know that I am alive, that I have one more day to live and one more day to create, to write, to dance and be able to continue writing my son a letter I was not able to write a year ago, that fills my heart. It keeps the momentum flowing, the momentum of letting my essence thrive through this layer of reality.
I am grateful for the garden that we have downstairs, that has taught me to clear and dig deep into my roots so I have an opportunity to untangle the many knots that I thought would keep me safe. Now that my heart is strong, now that I´ve untangled a few more knots and made the soil fertile enough so the flowers, vegetables, fruits and herbs can grow, now that I´ve nourished my spirit a bit more and have learned about harvesting and reserving and move into gratitude, now that I can learn about letting this fertile soil rest and nourish itself for the next crop.
Now I am learning to nourish our space, our dreaming. Now that I am learning to move from the I to we...I invite you to prepare the soil, to nourish once again the garden of your being, to mix the compost soil we´ve prepared for the new seedlings, the new ideas, projects, dreams of all that we are meant to do in this lifetime. There are no limits in the expression of your heart!
I invite you to this garden on the westside, on your reflections, your ideas, your seedlings to participate in this blog.