May Spiritual Journey: Growth

 Thank you for your patience today. I love each season as each one is gives a different lens to look upon life.  May 1 is the halfway point  between spring and summer solstice.  The days are still lengthening, the soil is warm enough for the starting of crops, and I am watching as the juncos return to the nest. It's a time of expansion 
which contains part of my OLW, expand.

“When you expand your awareness, seemingly random events will be seen to fit into a larger purpose.”
Deepak Chopra
 I am learning  to sit and rest to expand awareness..  In a period of spring's rapid growth, taking time to rest and be idle has its benefits.  You can hear your breath, watch as the bumblebees busy themselves in the Rhododendron blossoms. I make myself sit daily and rest even though, the writing calls and the art calls.  It's vital as a creative to take this time.

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I love this poem by Christine Valters Painter
Spring Ephemerals

The lambs have appeared overnight
smelling of salt and soil.
Where just yesterday bellies were
still heavy with growth,
soft mouths suckle,
so full of longing, tiny “o”s of joy.

Sparrows form a choir,
coax the sun awake,
thrum of blackthorn blossoms
where before was only branch and bud.
A yellow festival of daisies and dandelions
blanket a fragrant meadow,
swath of primrose announce themselves
with pink fanfare.
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The river reveals she is my sister
as she rushes into the arms of the sea.
White horses galloping across sky
are my brothers, and soon I see even
the delicate bone left from a swallow
as part of me, white gleam of belonging,
how I am no longer Earth-and-me
but one wild love for this world.

Please share your verses and thoughts on growth.