This is a taste of the beauty that I have been basking in on this bright, sun-filled well keeping day. The city of Johannesburg is a verdant urban forest, with many of the trees being Jacaranda - in the height of their spring glory at the moment.

It is good to celebrate the beauty and wonders of the turning of the seasons in both hemispheres. The inexorable cycles of life…

As I considered how to approach my day of well keeping, I knew that I would spend part of the day in silence--without speaking--and outdoors, in the early chill of the New England autumn. It was easy to be present in wonder and gratitude as I noticed immediately the quality of the light shining through the turning leaves. It was easy to love the beauty of the natural world. Then I began to notice my inner commentary, and I remembered that silence is not just not speaking, but also inner silence--the suspending of inner commentary; not so easy. Even the internal voice telling me how beautiful the red maple leaves were was commentary. I began to rest in being present, aware, tending the deep well within, attending to the subtle impulses that were not commentary, but aspects of the inner well, the nothing that was yet something.

What a day.…

Our week for Well keeping space and time for this beautiful, yet often forgotten part of the world is over. I feel so full of gratitude and love and peace. Yhank you my friends who joined this initiative and also deep thanks to all who held us in the larger presence of Gaia who so relentlessly holds us all.