Solace and holding things close
My family has slowly migrated all of our activities to happen in front of the woodstove which feels like the beating heart of the house.
I love it. I find solace in the constant tending it needs and how before I go to sleep I let my eyes get soft and watch the coals die down.
I write this today I guess because here it is dark. Today we are in the midst of the second of three atmospheric rivers moving through bringing lots more rain to an already soggy and in many cases very flooded Pacific Northwest. When the pouring lets up we do our very best to put on all the layers as quickly as we can to go outside and soak up the light, little it may be.
A lot has happened this month…I can’t imagine this isn’t true for you too. I woke up to the news of a new COVID variant of concern. It made me run through my checklist that is wellborn by now of uncertainty.
Anna Tsing reminds us that we live in uncertainty as our condition and the structure that maybe some of us once knew to hold meaning and reliability actually no longer exists. We already exist in the patchiness of uncertainty and it is a unexpected and often very disorienting place to be.
Its been a month of feeling thrown off and I am searching for solace. What are the things that offer you solace? What is solace in uncertainty? Where is it actually?
Where is your solace? I’d love to hear.I hope you are finding solace and that it is finding you back.
Xo,
c