Why am I so happy?

I've had a busy time this summer, as the wheel turns toward the harvest festivals and the evenings take on the cool air that invokes thoughts of "not yet, I am not ready to surrender to the endless warm and ever blooming days of the present"

I have also made a fair amount of time to re-connect to my sense of place, and come home to center. As I have done my journey inward I can't help but to feel an in immense sense of fullness, of gratefulness....and I am happy!

Happiness
1. joy, the emotion of being happy.
2. Good luck; good fortune; prosperity.
3. An agreeable feeling or condition of the soul arising from good fortune or propitious happening of any kind; the possession of those circumstances or that state of being which is attended enjoyment; the state of being happy; contentment; joyful satisfaction; felicity; blessedness.

I have reflected daily for the past three weeks on what I am so full with, so happy from.....this community that has so truly blessed my life. The reality that we have a tribe that truly, unconditionally care for one another in the ways that any family would be truly grateful to have. This tribe has talents of plenty, creatrixes of artwork and network magick, healers of touch and allopathic medicine, food goddesses divine, organic farmer, military, elder care, seamstress, quilters, bookkeepers and life coach, singer, songwriter, stone carver, bookstore owner, engineer, plant and herbal wisdom keepers, salmon keeper, death midwife.....and every one of those talents are possessed by at least one person in our tribe, and many many more talents go unnamed. That we share our gifts and trades and crafts with one another, we support and hold each other up, we unconditionally guide each other even when the waters or thresholds, are challenging to navigate.

How do I share that I have never known so much goodness, so much love, so much talent and so much spiritual devotion that I have never been this happy? How can I write about that which I asked myself everyday for weeks and just felt more joy, more blessing, more fullness of full and glad heart?

Ah, serendipity.... as I took a deep breath and tried to blog....I saw the words on my bulletin board, torn from the bottom of a note my daughter Jess wrote me years earlier......

"In our daily lives, we must see it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy." Albert Clarke

I know why I am so truly happy. I am truly grateful. Blessed Be.

Nora

Housekeeping my threshold.

I am sorry it has been such a long time between posts.

July brought about numerous opportunities for me to have a lot of traffic across my personal thresholds. I am staying home today from some long awaited events, taking care me with much need rest. Sort of a cleansing and reannointing my threshold. Loving and healing myself so I am able to continue this path I have been so blessed to walk.

With the crossing of a beloved friend, the amazing and wonder~full birth of my first grandchild, and the gift of midwifing the crossing of our family patriarch and beloved elder.....I must say how awesome it is to have such an incredible community, chosen family to surround and care for me.
Concern for my sister Joanna, my personal grief, and guarding the hearts of my children who have lost a grandfather and are feeling grief's deep, searing jabs, and yet they are processing and healing too.

My energy is low, and I need a recharge. It's not often this sister pulls out of being right in the middle of something, but the energy I put out last month is needs to return to me, so here I am, waiting to refill this vessel I so need to care for.

Today, I am smelling the stargazer lilies that fill my house (left from Dean's memorial and our Lammas Celebration) I am feeling the sun on my skin and I am closing my eyes when they signal they are heavy, and I need more sleep. I am drinking in tea and carrot juice and doing tinctures to revive my adrenals that have been streched.....I am caretaking this caregiver.

I await the refill of spirit and energy. Until then, I'll dream and heal. Dream and Heal. Sounds good doesn't it?