The suddenness of accidents, and letting healing happen.

Constant lessons and learning to lean in.

Dear pals, I hope you are really feeling well on this sacred day, if I may! If we made it past January we must be doing alright, anyhow.

It is Imbolc, St. Brigid’s day, and the first of February. Spring flies, rain falls, sun burns and quivers. Electrical showers.

Some plants close their petals in the rain. And just when you think their blooming days are behind them they come back and start all over again. And again. I noticed this recently and it’s gotten me thinking about how we as humans can go through immense pain and re-cover, amend, repeat. And how fragile and strong the human body is. And how this whole experience of life and healing is never ending, that it is our only real responsibility to the earth and its life and its people. We’ve all been here and we’ve all done that. The uncertainty of injury and the body, I think, is one of the biggest challenges. And even if we have been here before it doesn’t mean there isn’t new things to learn from the new lesson, the new day.

Damn this life of ours, though, and all its unexpected juices — just when you think you’re safe and the dust starts to settle, life will give you a swig of something other to set the bar once again.

Well to put matters simply, I am just emerging from a sudden stint in hospital with third degree burns on both of my legs making me unable to move or think much. The brain is a little smudgy too, so I hope some of this makes sense. I’ll spare you the details and definitely the images! It’s funny how the lessons will keep on repeating themselves in new forms and new ways until they are learned. And even once you think ‘okay, I’m good, let’s get on with it’ life will stump you before you’ve had a leg up! At least for me this has often been the case. The skin has always been a sensitive issue, and then the things below the skin.

I can’t believe the level of pain the human body can actually endure and just keep on surviving, the amount of kindness in strangers eyes, the rivers overflowing. Truly a miracle, this human body of ours. A real gift.