My mood matches up with where we are in the heart of this winter. That’s not a bad thing. It’s a time of slow reflection, friction, making space for a skin to shed and a vibrance to emerge when it is time, not always comfortable.
I feel all the potential building around me but there is no way it is ready to come out and play quite yet. I hope we can all find the space to trust in perfect timing and know that growth is not linear. It has been a long cold winter, I absolutely love how we have been pummeled with snow fall after snow fall. I also hit that point in the winter I need be reminded, it is all good girl, slow and steady wins the race.
As always Mother Nature has been leading the way on our maple season. I feel like we have been “getting ready” for weeks on end and we are just starting to watch her flow. Get ready, get ready and then it is GO TIME! Stay on the pulse until Mother Nature provides rest again. Maple season is always an alarm for the next season to trickle in.
And beyond what farm tasks are taking up my mental space is a conversation that keeps finding me over and over again as of lately, “it’s loud out there.” How connected we easily are to our screens yet lacking in our communities, our own homes. I’m finding myself in the dead of the winter and craving all that is calm and quiet before the world picks up the pace over the next couple of seasons. How can we find real genuine connection in a world where everything is calling out for our attention?
What that means for me is ruthlessly eliminating the clutter. I am currently trying to master how to dumb down my phone, how to navigate a business or two while balancing the world of social media, the desire to share while not selling my soul to an algorithm. I want my days to be connected in the richest sense. Don’t let that discount my gratitude for all that technology offers us but I can feel a much needed change is in the air, the guard rails going up on how to use our phones, the online world moving forward. It’s a good thing.
That’s why I’ll keep milking my goats, prepping for babies on the farm come spring, visualizing a garden and focusing on the next homecooked meal, the next new goat milk product I want to offer, making core memories in the mundane with my littles, less screens, more wonder and books, more meals with good company at the table.
I hope you can here my voice and know I’m sending only love. I hope we can all find ways to make our online world work for us and not the other way around. Authentic connection wins.
How are you out there my friend in the throes of wintering?
Wishing you peace and quiet and real honest connection even in the heart of the winter.
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