I Sit Listening To The Wind...

“How might your life have been different if, late one afternoon, near the end of summer, was you thought of the opening of school…and of trying, again, to learn to use your mind in traditional ways…something wondrous had happened?
If the women who were your teachers had invited their young women students…even the littlest girls… to come to sit in a circle…and, of course, you went, too.
If you had sensed the excitement in the voices of the teachers as they spoke of a different way to use your fine, young minds.  And you could feel the wonder of women sitting in a circle, under the open sky, just outside the school…gathered to share their wisdom with the younger women in their care.
How might you life be different?”        
The above reading is from the Circle of Stones Series, I Sit Listening To The Wind -  by Judith Duerk…one of my go-to books when I am being reflective about my life as it is today, and how I wish it to be as I move forward in my years in life…how ever long that may be…we don’t know.
As I read this today, I was reflecting on my week, and was re-living my special evening with a group of ladies, out in the country side, listening to the wind, hosted by a new friend, Christine.  We sat in our circle, listening to the wind and discussed our lives in relation to the book I published a year ago.  
The conversation was robust…fascinating…as many of the stories were heard for the first time, even though the friendships around the table were long term for many.  
What an inspiration to sit with women of like minds and discuss the messy parts…the joyful parts…the connections…
As I sit here, listening to the mild breeze, I feel such joy and closeness to these women that I was blessed to cross paths with this week.  Thank you to Christine, Sandra, Beverly, Shirley, Joanne, Jude, Mercida, Olivia, Lynn!