I'm at B & B coffee shop finishing up the details of life in Olympia. I awoke early and as I breathed in the wet air this morning it filled my body with such sweet smells of life and I realized again, that life is always changing, and this wet world I have loved for over a decade will no longer surround me in a week. The nurturing I have received here to truly become myself will never be forgotten as I step into the next phase of my life, searching for my home. For those of you who haven't tried astrocartograhpy with Rosie Finn, I highly recommend it! She can map out the locations on Earth where you are most suited according to your birth date, time, and location. My love and a poem for you all this rainy Sunday morning....
Buddha in Glory
Center of all centers, core of cores,
almond, that closes tightly in and sweetens,--
this entire world out to all the stars
is your fruit-flesh: we greet you.
Look, you feel how nothing any longer
clings to you; your husk is in infinity,
and there the strong juice stands and crowds.
And from outside a radiance assists it,
for high above, your suns in full splendor
have wheeled blazingly around.
Yet already there's begun inside you
what lasts beyond the suns.
—Ranier Maria Rilke, translated by Edward Snow
from New Poems
