Happy 2023 to You and Yours

I am working on the dreams of others for 2023 – the needs of those my duty to serve, in 2023 –

So just quick Well Wishes and best Hopes for you and yours in 2023!

And be advised – my reading/interacting/connecting/posting here is most LIKELY! on sabbatical for a bit –

(but maybe not! Ya all know when I get overwhelmed and need to gain distance and objectivity to ‘dive back in’ to that which I figure is my job to do, I sometimes RUN to my community here! To get my s**t together and come up with plan to move forward!)

We Shall See….Won’t We??

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That said – Just in case, I go MIA here, yet again, like I have in the past when Life Path needs more of me on local time spent fronts than cyber-social, connection, learning more fronts?

Well – Just wanted to say it out loud to my community I so often depend upon – here –

FYI – I ain’t dead or dying – and I’ll check in on you and provide my update, with y’all as I can- but the older I get?

The more boots on the ground time it takes, to simply take care of ‘me own community/backyard’ needs and so…..

Happy New Year from the Eastern Plains of Colorado –

Year Round-up of landscape & thoughts from year’s past gallery below…

Instead of doing a re-blog of my own work-

A gallery that I hope speaks to the scenes and thoughts, that here-there….

Increasingly?

…remind me of long ago and/or show up, over and over, in core, cyclical fashion, on many fronts…

Even when I know! I sound like an ole fart:

“I remember that year (such and such showed up…) Doncha know!? That year rather sucked/was golden/perfect…”

(Translation – Well, back in my day! We had to walk uphill, both ways, through a blizzard, 9-miles, etc..etc.. etc)

😀 Yeah – that’s all a tad bit of revisionist history on the parts of many humans, over and over – INCLUDING me even while I try hard to ‘guard’ against such things! myself – get’s harder, the older I get… 😀

Me, when I try to keep up with what all is going on all around me, every moment….

I Am, overall, a product of the landscape I was born into – and the folks who raised me, who also loved, this landscape….

I traveled from in my early youth, when I was shoved out of the nest and expected to find my wings!

But I came home to, because, I was never fully at peace in being far away from the landscape I became a part of at a very early age -or from being far from the folks who were forged and created and trained, within the same landscape – even though – we all left ‘here’ and ‘came back’ or expanded our thirst for knowledge in other ways, simply by opening our minds, hearts and doors to travelers & explorers from ‘distant’ landscapes, along the way –

And Now?

I know I CAN survive leaving the landscape I love –

I can survive taking risks, hoping for the best, live through the need to start all over and try, try again….often, in a new landscape, but, I don’t want to –

Sometimes I can’t bear the thought of ever leaving my ‘landscape that made me” ever, again….

I would miss the land – too much

No matter the blessings given, the challenges faced, the ludicrousness here and there in rituals, traditions of those who now inhabit the landscape I love? that I sometimes rail against in frustration over, “The landscape hasn’t changed – we haven’t changed – but the collective human made things have changed – and just who, are we willing to be, just about now?”- – that plays out here and there – over and over, to my mind, since my earliest memory of my childhood/teen ‘rebelling’ against human made constructs that seemed, sometimes, to me, even back then! Incongruent with the landscape we all inhabited –

Nope, took me a decades+ to better understand my heart & soul that was born, forged and crafted within, the landscape around me, the moment I was born into it ….

And, every moment of my current life? I learn that I need learn more about that landscape and myself – to understand better, the world around me….

I need to learn more about doing my part to gain the gifts from and not make it harder, for the land that supports me – for the folks who, also, love the land here, as I do – and to stand strong against any front that seeks to destroy the Deep Time of Mother Nature and her harsh/but kind ways –

And what does my heart say?

Not a moment of that time spent on where to change, where to speak up, where to fight, for myself, the landscape I live within?

None of that, is really, ever wasted….

Garlic in blizzard conditions

Wild rose in extra snow courtesy roof overhang that plops it right on the bed

Rain, Glorious Rain

Front area weeded, seeded with low growing wildflower mix.

Check out them white chicken’ legs that morph into clodhoppers! 🙂

Your Boots, on the Ground, Where You are At, in the end, is what matters –

Take care – and I’ll catch up with you in new, news, or touchin’ base, as soon as I can – until then?

Well – take care of you and yours, where you are at – build bridges, stand where needs be and… May your 2023 be blessed with everyday moments of joy and strength, courage to walk your ‘self-feet’ Life Path.

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