This year started yesterday, at least that's how I feel in a way. In a blink it's somehow November again.
We've had a nice long summer, but now I can feel the air turn crisp, I can see the light soften, yet the trees still hold tight to their leaves. I can feel the deep rhythm of nature soften. Mother nature has begun to rest.
Sadly, come this time of year, our world seems to do anything but.
To do lists begin to grow longer. Schedules fill up quicker. Ads from every angle shout for our attention. The stores are decorated for Christmas before Halloween even ends. Personally, I feel the holiday rush arrives earlier each year — tugging us toward 'more'.
Yet nature is always asking us to choose 'less'.
I’ve been thinking about how strange that is. The one thing that heals us the most, the one thing that holds the most sacred space for us, is often steered away from. The very season meant for gratitude and presence so easily becomes about hurry, as many of us become exhausted.
What if we decided to take this time to be guided by nature? What if we let go of all the expectations of the mad rush of the Holidays and invited in a bit more slow?
Is it possible for you?
There is a quiet kind of magic that only shows up when we stop rushing. It’s found in the steam rising from a cup of tea, in the sound of the wind moving through the trees, in the rustling in the golden, yellow leaves. It's in the crunch of dried leaves under our feet, or in the silence of the morning dew. It's in the glow of a candle on a table free of clutter.
These are the small, tender moments that remind us: this is enough. Just being here and witnessing these little treasures of life are enough.
As the holidays approach, maybe you can hold onto that — the gentle pace of nature in your own days. To say no without guilt, to choose peace over perfection, to find true meaning not in the many 'things', but in the few that truly matter, the experiences only you can create and hold close.
Life should never be about 'keeping up' for nature is always begging us to slow down. Nature always invites us to slow down, to pay attention, and to remember that beauty lives quietly in the spaces we leave open.
Listen to the quiet whisper of nature beneath the mad daily noise: Be still, quiet your mind, and remember, you are the creator of your own life. Nature can be your guide and perhaps you are meant to follow her lead.
We'll talk soon...
