“This is the time to be slow,
Lie low to the wall
Until the bitter weather passes.
Try, as best you can, not to let
The wire brush of doubt
Scrape from your heart
All sense of yourself
And your hesitant light.
If you remain generous,
Time will come good;
And you will find your feet
Again on fresh pastures of promise,
Where the air will be kind
And blushed with beginning.”
~ John O’Donohue, To Bless the Space Between
There are few pleasures more satisfying than facing the warm sun on a cold day. Just ask the cat who slinks from beneath our fence each afternoon to rest in a nest of grass and face the sun. It luxuriates in the warmth just like we do, sitting in our Adirondack chairs, eyes closed, faces to the brilliant sun.
“Memorize this,” she said. Our forecast is sans sunshine.
This week began with Breck resplendent with yellow and umber leaves. By mid-week her colorful quaking leaves had all but dropped to the ground. She let us know it was time to pull the last of the garden and prep the yard for the coming cold. Autumn steps toward winter.
We are uniquely ready. Our time with Dogga during his illness has brought us into hyper-awareness and a type of gratitude with deep roots. Yesterday on our walk she said that this time was full-full-full of precious moments. It’s true. We’ve rarely been more keenly appreciative of the simple things – a wag of the tail, a successful step down into the sunroom, begging for a bite of our dinner. What used to be common has become reason for celebration. With the sun on our faces we marvel as our wobbly Dogga investigates the scent of an unauthorized kitty.
“If you remain generous, Time will come good.”
She said, “Someday we will look back and know that we did everything that we could do, that we were completely present with him, that there was nothing more important.”
Too true. Someday – someday, we will look back. With attention to our hearts we will know that we did well to prep for the coming cold. “Memorize this.”
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