welcome, openhearted october, a moon where every day the pilgrimage is a devotion to cultivating the green bough, the open heart of flowing love, peace and joy! i pray you awake today, with a child’s open heart and a beginner’s mind somewhere aware that this beautiful moment of sharing the astonishing light of being has been quietly forming and waiting for the perfect moment to present, to presence….

thanks be for courage kindling our one sweet heart to open to what is and to trust the destination is the journey… we don’t have to know where we are going, how could we in this river of life that’s fluid and dynamic, moving from moment to moment only asking that we simply be open, one with the tides of life…

today we travel along the mighty Columbia witnessing the devastation of a fire started by human hands and celebrating the beauty of the green boughs still alive in the gorgeous gorge…

deep bow to green tara, goddess of enlightenment and compassion, for revealing this moment of  surrendering suffering to the river of joy always flowing…

may we all open our one heart as wide as the sky, as deep as the ocean and smile at this revelation of  new life… the green bough promising all is well…