Healing Showers

It has been a beautiful rainy day. I went to yoga this morning and took a nap in the early afternoon. My parents are gone for three weeks in Italy so I have had more time with my sister and an increased level of self-reflection that naturally comes with them gone. In my writing and meditation I have been able to explore life changes that are personal and close to my heart. Sometimes it is good to have an increased independence that can lead to an increased interdependence.

The light is shining through now and the rain has stopped. I have entered the second half of my day and I am already sore from this morning’s class. There is not a lot for me to stress over in my current life. Today the only thing on the schedule was yoga and tomorrow it is Quaker gathering. I have been reading books and just reveling in the inwardness of this season. Time spent with my sister and her year and a half old is precious, and I feel I couldn’t ask for a better life. Simple as it is, it is beautiful and precious and I am thankful.

The last harvest from my garden, a handful of heirloom sunflowers, are on my desk in front of me and are showing signs of the end of their glory. Leaves have left us and fallen to the ground, and the water has finally returned, giving life and a much needed drink to trees and bushes that have been stunted and thirsty all summer and during this Indian summer that we have had recently. There are fall colors of deep reds, bright reds, mild and vibrant oranges, mustards, yellow greens and browns. The landscape is in transition and as the life of summer says its goodbye, it leaves us with a final show of paint, which now is glimmering in a post shower luminescence. Absorbing is a word I come back to on a day like today. To soak in the rain and the soothing messages that such a shower can bring. Then to let it settle as the down pour passes and the light returns. I let my body breath in and breath out, my porous skin feeling satiated and rejuvenated. I absorb this gratefulness and hope that it leads to positive change and healing insight.