12 July, Cathedral of All Saints, 9:29 AM

Thank you for the incense of earlier this morning.  Whatever it is that is newly a-bloom this day is exquisite when carried in on a gentle cool bath of a breeze.  Light and citrus-floral.  There was a moment of simply drawing it in…or drawing it inward—not containing, but allowing or willing an openness on my part so that the scent might flow freely—like I was saying ‘If I am to be in its company, let me not be a hinderance to its movement—let me open so as to allow free passage.  And, may some of it, some of the primeval, generative love, some of the elemental creativity and sensuality, take hold—as by organically driven grasp a tendril takes hold upon a willing support.

The other thing too…the Kite festival!  AUGH!  SUCH simple joy and freedom.  The smiling faces upon people of all ages…all everything…pairings, languages, abilities… It was a wonderland to walk the hill beneath a canopy of colours riding on the wind…The HORSE! and Ladybirds, a Kraken, Mario, Luigi, butterflies, a bi-plane, a huge circle of pocketed pyramids with elements of both Steampunk and MC Escher; diamonds and boxes and Hello Kitty, darters, floaters, can’t deciders… I loved the contrast of earth and sky… that we were walking beneath something that rode on currents that could only be seen in reaction…There was a relationship and a longing that I felt… connection and yearning… It was nourishing in so many ways…

There is something, isn’t there, about the wind, that holds these experiences together… The wind that becomes visible as kites search for air currents—rising, darting, climbing, asking for more room to fly and spinning the reel of line… The wind that becomes presence as I am awash with the scent of its journey…

I become more aware of my place within the forces of nature and their physicality, within their more ethereal qualities too…My place within the Whole of All… All Here, all of the Now, all of the This…My place in the orgin, in the growing, expanding…My place within the Holy, the Heart, the Sacred, the Love that permeates and saturates and remains, abides, lifts, rises, blooms and soars…

And what I can say is simply Yes, please!!  And, Amen!! And, augh…Thank You…