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Commenced:	01/06/2009
Submitted:	03/04/2012
Last updated:	07/10/2015
Location:	Salt Spring Island, BC, CA
Climate zone:	Cool Temperate

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Posted by Chris Muscat over 12 years ago

The incredible subtle heart of the natural world

Today at home with my children surrounded by the warm sun and softness of the world. Powerful and lovely, hand covered with soil the sweetest smells of life pushing up for its first peek, its first breathe. How must it feel to emerge into life once again or prepare the journey from seed. All the nutrients and relationhships ahead of you, with the elements of nature coming together in so many ways unseen and spiritual. How precious and lucky to witness this emergence a prayer wheel of the seasons.

I some times stand and admire the slow progress of it all, the blossoms, the bumble bees slow and slugish flying in circles around your head, trying to drag you into its dizzying effect. The darkest of greens in small bean plants and the deep red of rhubarb or comfreys soft leaf and growth.

I breath and breathe deep, the water entering the earth, the earth under your finger nails. Amazing.

Time gone by.. the earth is real good, isn't she.

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