The verbena has started to grow new shoots. It is December but it is still warm and this warmth has given it hope that maybe we have missed the winter and spring is already here. Winter will come and the new shoots will freeze, the energy the verbena is currently using will be mostly wasted, though new shoots in the garden are always beautiful.
The chickens are also hopeful. Avian flu is back and the current rules are to put the chickens in to lock down, so for now they have a little less space to run, a little less food to explore but they will still wait by the door each time I go out.
Hope is not a bad thing of course. It is what keeps us going when faced with even the bleakest of circumstances but sometimes it makes us hold on so tightly to the thought of what could be we forget to appreciate what is.
Yesterday was the new moon and a solar eclipse and all sorts of exciting planetary alignments. If that’s not your thing we’re also heading towards the end of the year. Getting ready for celebration and rest over the Christmas break so I think this is the very best time to let go. We don’t know what 2021 will bring and there is no point in dragging the baggage of 2020 with us. So this week we will be exhaling a little deeper, stretching a little longer, walking in the woods and feeling the world around us relax and let go in to this time of hibernation.
Letting go of the bad things will always mean letting go of a little good too but we’re not meant to carry it all with us I don’t think. The space created is far more valuable than the load.
We will be letting go of the good, the bad, the hope and the failures of 2020 and trying not to fill the space with anything else. The spring will return and the chickens will once again be pulling up the flowers, but not quite yet, now we rest.
Rewilding my family 