Mietzke's POST Holden Adventure

It is absolutely breath takingly gorgeous outside right now! The moon is full and filling the valley with light. The mountains all around have white peaks stark against the dark of the sky. It has been so rainy and dark for the last few days the gloom threatening to take over. The sky clarity feels like breathing in fresh air. The wind picked up last night and blew hard knocking down trees and sending flurries of snow that danced but never settled around Holden. At lunch we watched the flurries out the window during our noon service. The dry cold feels good after all of that wet bone chilling rain and I feel that winter piece of myself awakening, call it soul, call it inner light, I have a new eye open, awaiting snow and quiet. The crisp clear air feels like a promise of rest, inner quiet, and resolve. The moonlight is a reminder of snowshoeing in the brightness through the patterns of blue shadows and silver light. Anticipation of the inner spiral of light lives in me with such longing. It the summer I live so far out of myself with my eyes always directed outward never settling, and though I do not have leaves the fall has been a time of release and turning my focus inwards. Now I can feel the gesture of coming into myself, of being, and I am ready.