A few weeks ago, I wrote about feeling like a vessel within a vessel, bobbing on the water. It seemed like I was in a fragile, but blessed, state of balance. This led to my using markers and colored pencils to "paint" a number of postcards to send to friends. The cards picture a glass vase filled with water, perched on the center seat of an old rowboat which is floating out on the middle of a lake. No people, no oars. To get through this upcoming time, this is the quality I think we will all need...almost superhuman balance, balance within balance within balance. The ability to hold still within and without no matter how much shaking is going on around us in the natural world and in society.
I would take a photo of one of these images to share with you, but my flip phone (which takes surprisingly good pictures) doesn't communicate with my computer, so you'll just have to imagine this in your mind's eye. Or feel it in your core.
Happy solstice!
