When my husband,
daughter, and I were living on our sailboat on the river in Redwood
City, California I became intimately connected with the changing
weather during the times when my daughter would nap. I would sit in
the cockpit and journal each day and began to see myself in the
naturalness of the cloudy stillness, the heaviness and turbulence of
approaching rains, and the calm clarity of the sunlit skies. I began
to identify with the ever-changing mood of each day, and my heart
began to open to a greater acceptance of the naturalness of my
ever-changing moods. During that special time in my life, it was like
I was seeing the sky, the clouds, and feeling the wind and sun on my
skin for the first time, in brilliant clarity and gratitude. I
relished each day on the boat, and the closer that it brought me to
realizing my own wild nature. It helped me to connect to the wide
spectrum of feelings that I had, and that they somehow felt okay
because nature herself felt the intense rush of stormy skies and the
lightness of sunny days. It also reminded me that like the weather, I
am forever changing, so not to fixate or dwell on any particular
state of being or feeling, as this too shall pass.
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