Day 22 – It’s raining today! I love rain. Especially in the spring when the grime and dirt of winter are hanging on to the surface. When the piles of snow are a bit dreary with sand and muck. The rain cleanses and gently washes away the last remnants of winter.
I make coffee and put on the nature sounds through my speaker from a recording. Here where I have been, there are no nature sounds, with exception of squawking geese. I think the huge number of geese here has totally annihilated any other animals that might like to live here.
Today, I am heading to Niagara Falls to hike the gorge. It is a 7.5 km hike with the Niagara Hiking Group. It will be led and I will follow. I usually hike alone. Walk alone. Move alone. Live alone. To be with others is not my norm. That is one reason I want to move to Elliot Lake, to be in community with others. My own cohort, give or take a decade. Be able to join groups and share myself with others. It’s been my dream for a while now …. And now it is here, time to make the move, I wonder, is there another plan?
One of my pictures today, is the drawing my grandson made for me as he rode along in the backseat alongside my belongings when I moved here. It lives with the cutting of a plan my mother had since the 70’s. Both remind me of life’s journey.
Can it really be seven months since I came here? Some days feels like forever and others a millisecond. I’ve been offered the opportunity to break my lease and sublet for the four remaining months. That means moving in three weeks. Am I ready? Can I do that? With my Ireland Hiking plans the last two weeks of April, it means I must move fast. I have three papers that I need to do. Wrap up the semester and find a place to roost along the way. Is this how the birds that migrate feel? Come on Martha, it’s time.
One of the constants of my life are my bears. They have been with me for a long time. So I explained to them this morning, the time has come once again, family, we are diggin’ up stakes. Carol Orsborn writes, in Older, Wiser, Fiercer, on page 112, “What courage it takes to jump off the edge of who we once thought we were and plunge headfirst into the shadows.” Am I courageous? Am I brave? Or am I simply crazy, impetuous and hungry for adventure? Either way, I love it!
The light of the moon is waning as journey to darkness, however, like the moon our faces will shine again …. women ignite, grow and burn deep with from your heart centre.
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