The equinox marks the moment of the year when light and dark are in balance. Whether you are in the Northern or the Southern Hemisphere, the day and the night are of the same length. Of course, knowing you are tipping toward winter or toward spring makes a difference in what the equinox means to you, but perhaps for just this moment it is possible to live quietly in the shared balance.
What do you treasure about this particular moment you are in?
Some days it feels like there is just too much to carry, that the tasks and the burdens have piled so high that at any moment things could collapse in a chaotic heap of chairs and bed linens and onions. Go slow. Take it easy around the corners.
What helps when you are feeling overwhelmed?
“If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.”
―John F. Kennedy
What do you do to make the world safe for diversity?
Before the weaver can work the magic of turning plain threads into intricate, patterned cloth, she must be able to hold the pattern in her head, creating the entire piece in her imagination before the first thread touches the loom.
What are you able to see in your imagination that you haven’t yet been able to create?
If you looked at this tree from higher up, you might see it as a bunch of individual trees all leaning away from one another, rather than a single tree reaching out its branches. Perhaps we look at humanity from a perspective too far from the roots.
What most deeply connects you to others?
