Daily Nugget #181
what the cold does
the temps are shifting
as are we.
sometimes this causes a
poop-a-thon
to the Nth degree.
i’m not sure why the current ‘shift’
is causing such a rift within me.
splitting myself in two
or maybe
quarters. eighths. sixteenths?!
bla!
i noticed on my walk the other day
that the cold made me contract deeply
and
in this contraction
i bumped in to a piece of myself.
ouch.
i forgot you were there…
who are you anyway?
ahh.
the part of me that is summoned by the cold
the contraction
the dark days.
the dark days…….
november has always been my most challenging month.
i used to have a poop-a-thon all thru the ‘holidays’.
what the cold does.
things get hard and crunchy.
our breath forms in the air
my dog needs a jacket.
<that’s a whole other Nugget>
has the shift in light and/or temperature
<unless you are in the S hemisphere>
dropped you in to those places
that can only be touched
by deep contraction?
hey, wait a minute.
didn’t i just recently Nugget about
expanding IN to the contraction?
yep.
ok.
as i contract in to my depths
i commit to expanding inward.
inward is infinite.
amazing if you think about it.
and
when i get to those hard-to-reach places
i will expand IN to them
and
IN to myself
and
create my own light
expand my own light
so the lack of sun
will not phase me
and
the poop-a-thon
will stay contained in my toilet. ha!
what the cold does.
it reminds us of the lost places
and icky things
that can make us all squirrelly
if we stand next to them.
if we expanded our light
and
offered it inward
the lost will be found
the dark will be light
the poop will be flowers
and
that piece of myself
that the cold called forth
will step up to the line
to be embraced. celebrated.
and
i may even keep ‘it’ around
for good times.
good times….