Here in the southern Willamette Valley in Oregon, we get wind storms from time to time. Usually once a year, we get a big one that tears through. It usually hits us late winter or early spring, around March or April. This year's hit just this last weekend.
As I was walking to and from bus stations on my way to work, I noticed all the tree parts that had come down to the ground in the course of the windstorm. A lot of it is deadwood, old branches for whatever reason were dead, and either had not yet been shed or had been shed but had been caught in the other branches. Some of it was dead leaves or dead needles. Some of it was green leaves on skinny green branches and the early spring flowers, mostly cherry blossoms.
It occurred to me that this is like the trees' yearly spring cleaning. The winds kick up and shake down all the stuff that isn't fit. All the deadwood, all the unnecessary leaves and sticks and needles, all the things that are too fragile. Everything no longer needed gets blown loose from the trees.
We all need this same thing from time to time. We all need to unpack our emotional baggage, to shake loose what no longer serves us. We all need, from time to time, a strong wind to blow through our house and take away with it all the clutter that gets in the way of living. We all need to clear our space - our physical space, our emotional space, our energetic space. We all need that early spring wind storm or flood or fire or avalanche to help us let go of the past and move forward, to escape the shackles and keep walking.
As I was walking to and from bus stations on my way to work, I noticed all the tree parts that had come down to the ground in the course of the windstorm. A lot of it is deadwood, old branches for whatever reason were dead, and either had not yet been shed or had been shed but had been caught in the other branches. Some of it was dead leaves or dead needles. Some of it was green leaves on skinny green branches and the early spring flowers, mostly cherry blossoms.
It occurred to me that this is like the trees' yearly spring cleaning. The winds kick up and shake down all the stuff that isn't fit. All the deadwood, all the unnecessary leaves and sticks and needles, all the things that are too fragile. Everything no longer needed gets blown loose from the trees.
We all need this same thing from time to time. We all need to unpack our emotional baggage, to shake loose what no longer serves us. We all need, from time to time, a strong wind to blow through our house and take away with it all the clutter that gets in the way of living. We all need to clear our space - our physical space, our emotional space, our energetic space. We all need that early spring wind storm or flood or fire or avalanche to help us let go of the past and move forward, to escape the shackles and keep walking.
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