It's amazing how quickly time goes by. I was out walking in the forest in Index, Washington and I can already smell the scent of Autumn in the air. I've been busy with amphibian monitoring (I'll add those photos in a later blog), chasing red foxes on San Juan Island, and taking a 2 week road trip through southern Idaho, Grand Tetons, and on up to my spiritual home- Yellowstone. Back home now I challenge the typical rhythms of my everyday life. Epiphanies had on a solo 2 week trip are taking hold. My writing and photography become my focus when I have a moment here and there. My job becomes more tedious as I feel the pull to open and follow my passions. Fox, otter, weasel, and crow medicine were my companions on my adventures. Sometimes I get so caught up in figuring out how to make it work that I forget to let go and follow the omens (read The Alchemist). Mindfulness.
I leave again in a couple of weeks for Yellowstone where I hope to forge new friendships and deepen others. Wherever my path leads through the park I will follow. Wherever the omens are I will follow here and there.
Further blogs will carry the stories of my above companions on my trip. Warning some are beautiful and one is painful, yet releasing.
"...when each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises."
Paulo Coelho The Alchemist
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