To Feel Love

Lady, goddess, your light covers
the world like that of the round moon,
Pattini, we offer these dances to you.
Be patient with us if our steps go astray,
for you are more skillful than we are.
Mighty Pattini, be joyous as you receive
all that we offer you, you who were born
from the womb of the lotus flower,
ou who bloom as beautifully
as the blue lotus itself, O noble lady,
O blooming goddess, accept our humble offerings.

--Sri Lankan hymns to the goddess

Unconsciousness of the earth impoverishes us.

This is so definitely the truth as far as I am concerned. Yesterday when coming in to land, I followed my own personal ritual, looking out of the aircraft windows, trying to see the land below me - coming home, and with that looking; that seeking, comes the desire to be out in the woods around the house. Reconnecting with everything... there's just something very special about being here, aside from it being 'home' that helps with that reconnection happening that doesn't seem to happen anywhere else.

Do I feel impoverished because of that lack of connection? Yes, but I've as yet to discover anywhere that I feel comfortable with goin to make that connection while in Cairo, and anyway it's not the same when it's not the green and the trees and the state of 'earth' that is alive in my heart. Sure the desert has its own kind of harsh beauty, and in fairness I've not really seen much of the land around where I'm living at the moment, but it's definitely the sense of greenery that I'm missing.

So here I sit, comfortable at last, surrounded by the green and the living trees and all of everything that makes me feel calm and alive, in the good company of my wonderful guy, spending time playing Skylanders, but knowing that I can reach out and touch the connection with earth at any time. And yes... I feel the richer for it. I feel love.