The hummingbirds have had their first young. There are so many little babies flying about it seems likely that they will mate again this season, cold though it may be. I am nearing the point of needing to add an additional feeder. My little diabetes factory is in full swing and is quite enjoyable during their waking hour as well as their final hour of the night. The frenzy is pleasant to enjoy, whilst not mine.
Today is a day of pressure canning, and working again upon firewood. Nothing exciting for the outside world, but exciting here nonetheless. I am gaining reserves for the coming winter and that is exciting in a very personal way. Knowing I can feed myself, sans power to store food or to provide heat? It is safety, comfort, and starting several months earlier than last year’s arrival, there is more time to enjoy the process, combined with the knowledge of how much will be enough.
This year has been full of new life. Not just my new twenty years adjusted Colorado landscape, but in what this place offers the soul. Many of you that know me know that one aspect of my arrival was to heal. To mend. To tend what needed tending in order to begin the next, balanced, adjusted, and well meaning avenue my life shall take. What can I say about this place that I have not already spoken of? It is good for the soul, the spirit, to rekindle that which we thought might be lost, or hidden so thoroughly it will never be recovered.
The Healer, that’s what this place has become for me. The space. The peace. The solitude. All of this mixed with a myriad of life, animal and human, all open, receptive, and equally pleased to be here.
If so inclined, enjoy what I was enjoying while writing the post.