issue 2: Wander, Wonderment and (re)Wilding

How do you refresh, replenish and reconnect with nature and your own true nature? For myself, I must have my early morning walk and talk with Spirit to feel myself on firm footing through the day. I hike a trail in the canyon or mountains nearby and have a soak in the living waters of the river or stream which have been immensely healing and renewing for me. This is my sacred daily medicine.

This morning while at the river I asked what Spirit would like to share with us all today in this week’s Community Garden offering. In immediate response, up popped a juvenile river otter, swirling, twirling and sort of bark/chirping right before me. The message was pretty clear that we could use his good medicine of uninhibited playfulness. He seemed to be inviting me into it with his beckoning barks. Otters are extremely intelligent, exceptionally curious, amazingly inventive, endlessly playful, highly adaptive and deeply community-oriented. They love to share and play with one another; there is no sense of competition between them; they hold hands when sleeping on the water to keep from drifting away; they navigate obstacles with a deft ease; they use sticks and stones as tools for hunting prey hiding amidst rocks and tools of grasses and shaped stones for their grooming; their sleek hybrid bodies with strong legs and webbed feet make them agile on both land and in water—a creature of two worlds.

So today, guided by Otter’s wisdom and good medicine, I offer a few pieces on self-care, therapeutic wandering, nature’s demonstrations of reciprocity as a model for us to follow and the power of rewilding both ourselves and our animal kin.

I invite us all to seek and make time for our own good medicine, whatever it is. We are humbly and magnificently human—a bit flawed, a bit complicate and worthy of adoration for simply being as we are. Acceptance comes from realigning with Nature, with our own true nature and reminding ourselves that we are creatures of this Great Earth. Our bodies, minds and spirits will always find healing, nurturing, renewal and good company with the Great Mother when we seek it.

In Truth, Beauty and Goodness,

B. Monique

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