Now that the cold of winter slowly creeps into our bones, we would like to share with you some impressions of a sunny moment that we have experienced on a summer weekend.

 

 

 

 

Close your eyes. Let yourself be taken by your hand and be guided through the grass, where the crickets chirr. The sun is warm on your skin and shows you the way. Your feet are wandering around, they feel the soft ground and the creaking stones beneath them. Your hands reach out. They feel buds that are just coming into life and leaves that have already entered the sunset of theirs. It is September and summer has not yet decided to leave. The soft wind carries you on along your way.

For one afternoon, our small group ranges through the woods around our lodge. Again and again, the landscape invites us to stay for a while – be it in the sun-warmed, humming grass, in the mossy shades of the forest, in the colourful stone pit or at the clearance that offers our eyes the chance to roam over the wide territory. We wander, we experience, we think. We reflect on a systemic view of the world that shows us how all things are connected. Connected in space, in a bond between all beings, as well as in time, in the relation between yesterday, today and tomorrow. Small glimpses show us at moments that everything is just the way it should be, even if it eludes our own, well thought-out plans.

Close your eyes. Let yourself be taken by the hand and be guided by life itself. Have faith that you will not only find your way but that you are already on it. The answers will come to you while you are walking.

 

Daniela, August 2013

 

 

Book recommendation: “Coming back to life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World” by Joanna Macy and Molly Young Brown; New Society Publishers, 6^th edition, 2008