Well it’s most definitely wet. A milder campervan morning, but the sound is persistent rain on roof and walls. The oak is a murky image in the darkness, dawn yet to rise. The sky momentarily lit by lightening, casting flashes of shadow and the roll of thunder to break the pattern of rain, which quickly returns. There are no other sounds. The early hour means the light is yet to shape the day, so I am sat in darkness, nursing my coffee and listening to the rain. Not an unpleasant way to start the day. It’s funny how muffled the senses feel, the ears overwhelmed by the sound of rain, the roll of thunder, the eyes reaching out into the dark, briefly blinded by flashes of light then retuning, the smell of coffee on the air. Kant wrote that ;
“ All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason”.
It’s amazing this morning how with the stifling of some of the senses leaves gaps in understanding and reasoning.
A much relieved and return to energy yesterday, jobs that had been left idle for a week addressed and cleared, chores hanging around sorted and a much needed breath of relief that the virus had been kicked. I dipped back into a book recommended by a dear friend some time ago by Gabrielle Roth ‘Connections The Threads of Intuitive Wisdom ‘. She talks of the disconnect from our bodies and the earth the more sophisticated we have become. She talks of ;
“ The concept of evolution as a progression toward an ideal of perfection may simply be a judgement.”
And this is the bit that I was particularly drawn to.
“ We may be moving away from something perfectly essential, not just toward something essentially perfect. Evolution could be devolution. Progress could be regress.”
Having spent over two weeks in the woods of Scotland, sharing, teaching, holding space, drumming, singing, learning and witnessing, coming back feels like a regression of sorts.
A return to an immersion in modern societies idea of progress. The positive part of this blasted virus has been to take stock of what has happened and to ensure the right energy is put into the right things, right places and the right people. Bit of an early morning mangled ramble as my thoughts rampage around and I make sense of them, but I sense you know where I am coming from. As it was once said by Debbie Millman ;
“ Expect anything worthwhile to take time.”
Even your return to health. The rain has subsided, it’s still dark, so venturing outside to feel the breeze, the sounds and the end of the rain. Lovely days people.
“ The feeling that we stand face to face with the world, cut off and set apart, has the greatest influence on thought and action”. Alan Watts.
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