The Graze V.142: A Dream

Dear Friends:

It is reassuring to remember that the days are slowly growing longer as the Killington Valley finds itself in the coldest days of winter. These are my favorite days to dream in front of the fire - imagining the new life that is waiting just below the frost.

The Vermont Center for Ecostudies published this Field Guide to January. It is fun to read bits of natural history about our more-than-human friends right in our neighborhood..... the beaver, the deer and the owls.

It is afterall, the season of Epiphany, where mystery and awe are before us. I read this week about How a Bit of Awe Can Improve Your Health. Dacher Keltner, a psychologist at the University of California, writes that ‘awe’ is critical to our well-being. That understanding ourselves in the presence of something vast that transcends our understanding of the world promotes both our physical health and our capacity for love.

On this week we celebrate Epiphany - not as something that happened, but as something that is happening. Epiphany is our invitation to a sacred pause. It is a season full of gifts. What Epiphany is the newly-rebirthed Christ child, seeking to gift you with in this new year? What are the dreams that we can dream together - for a world that holds more peace, more justice and more love?

This short film is a two-minute immersion in the amazing footage from the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. This event took place 60 years ago. This lovely snapshot reminds us to keep working, marching and fighting for jobs, freedom, equal rights, liberation, inclusivity and a world where

May the Epiphany gift you, the earth and our dreams together with new life,

Lisa+