ah, righteousness is restored today on victory day, the tenth day following the nine nights, navaratri, a major hindu festival celebrating nine manifestations of the goddess Durga and honoring the power and grace of divine mother over nine nights and ten days…
with our still being in such an intense right of passage, i love each season taking nine nights to connect with Durga in her fierce love manifestation, the form that removes fear, separation and negativity from our lives, the energy that calls us into acting affirmatively for the web of life…
thank you Durga for helping me/us remain wide-open like the sky, fertile like the earth, unshakable like a mountain, shining like a flame and lucid like a crystal in the face of turbulent waters threatening loss of connection…
thank you Durga for whispering to let it be, you are in flow wherever you go, surely you know there is only flow… a moment of crisis brings us to our knees, a perfect place to re-lease… all illusions of separation transmuted now into the field of unification… returning home to the watery womb of creation, resurrected now from the dark tomb of separation…
thank you dear Durga for bringing good fortune, protection and blessings into the web of life so that we may all walk in beauty before us, behind us, beside us, below us, above us, within us, surrounding us…
“You Reading This, Be Ready”
“Starting here, what do you want to remember?
How sunlight creeps along a shining floor?
What scent of old wood hovers, what softened
sound from outside fills the air?
Will you ever bring a better gift for the world
than the breathing respect that you carry
wherever you go right now? Are you waiting
for time to show you some better thoughts?
When you turn around, starting here, lift this
new glimpse that you found; carry into evening
all that you want from this day. This interval you spent
reading or hearing this, keep it for life.
What can anyone give you greater than now,
starting here, right in this room, when you turn around?”
~ William Stafford ~