Day 22: The Mountains Are Calling
- Jay Berghuis
- Sep 10, 2024
- 2 min read
Updated: Sep 19, 2024
The mountains are calling, and I must go.
John Muir’s famous quote says it all. It’s exactly three weeks since my world exploded into a gritty recovery. Believe it or not, today I'm heading up into the mountains with a wheelchair, walker, leg brace, and commode – ha! Driven up by Uli, my primary support person, who is more than ready for a 5-day break from caregiving!
I’ll be co-leading my annual SoulFire murmurations retreat with 22 adventurous women from all over the US and Canada. Here’s a picture of one of the recent groups! Beautiful, eh?! It's amazing that there is accessibility to live, move, and teach from the main floor of the Lodge and decks to enjoy the mountain terrain from a distance. It will surely be a retreat for me too!
I’m mostly offline until Sunday the 15th.
Send Uli lots of love if you know him.
Today I was calming myself by listening to an instrumental playlist of old hymns – Ahhhhh. YES!
"Blessed Assurance...It is well with my Soul."
The thing that is hardest for me right now is not to be able to walk out into nature. To step out wandering in the wild or swimming in a Northern lake is my most inspiring activity.
I am such a wild thing – this poem has been one of my rocks over the past years:
TO BE OF EARTH
by John Soos
To be of the Earth is to know
the restlessness of being a seed
the darkness of being planted
the struggle toward the light
the joy of bursting and bearing fruit
the love of being food for someone
the scattering of your seeds
the decay of the seasons
the mystery of death
and the miracle of birth.
How are you of Earth?
What line of this poem speaks to the season of life you are in?
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