The walk this morning was much needed after a month of severe allergies, so bad it required a visit to urgent care on Easter morning. The symptoms still linger, but moving and seeing may be the last two antidotes required for a full healing.
10 bunnies hopping and munching
One white egret & one great blue heron…both taking off from and landing in lakes, hunting for breakfast
One sandhill crane soaring and calling
Squirrels eating nuts and snacks left by strangers
Pigeons perching watchfully
One male cardinal sitting high up on a black lamppost, surveying the sky before darting off in flight
Clouds that looked like brushstrokes or breath
Various ducks and birds, quacking and singing
Fish breaths, bubbling up into ripples on the surface of the water
Crows collecting, connecting, communicating
“To see a crow with food in its beak is a sign of tremendous good fortune, an assurance of future economic prosperity.”
~ Judika Illes
The Big Book of Practical Spells
Everyday Magic That Works
mother crow
by Michelle Crider
Fear & Musings a Journey from Anxiety to Peace
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When I walk early in the week, I always stop first at the spot where the gem ladies set up their booth during the Sunday farmer’s market. They leave full geodes out on the street for children (or adults!) to purchase and smash.
Back story: When we lived nearby, my daughter and I would go to the same spot when the market closed to scour the street, sidewalk, and bordering mulch and grassy areas for geode fragments. We would find tiny pieces, perfect round pieces, huge chunks, or none at all.
Some mornings a kind stranger asks if they can help me find something I appear to have lost or they approach, curious why I’m searching the ground.
This morning an older woman who was walking her dog called out, “Hello!” almost as if we knew each other. She crossed the street and we started chatting about what I was doing.
I showed her my handful of geode pieces to which she exclaimed, “How incredible you’ve found such wonder in the ordinary morning of the day!”
She refused a piece when I offered, replying, “I wouldn’t know what to do with it!” To which I encouraged, “You would look at it! It’s beautiful!”
instead of exercise.
instead of exercise.
When walking or practicing yoga, exercise happens along the way, but walking and yoga offer a pathway to creativity, happiness, contentment, expansion, abundance…and how much sweeter each are when they work their magic on the body, mind, and the Soul!
Opening my eyes to see again, I take in all the goodness the world is offering at any given moment. And it can be the same for you.
Are your eyes open to see?
Usually I’m standing at this house (below) taking a picture of the house on the opposite side! Today something stopped me in the moment before capturing this image saying, “LOOK!” So I looked across the lake and gazed upon the other house I’d love to live in one day!
Keep this intention close…
“By looking with wakened eyes and a vision connected through my inner and outer worlds ~ from my heart’s center and mind’s eye, with the essence of my Spirit engaging with the physical realm…I imagine then materialize my dreams and desires…claiming them for my Earthly enjoyment!”
How do you know what you truly desire…
and what is truly desiring you?
Until next week, and as always…
We walk this path together,
one breath at a time.
🌞 Michelle
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Think…part body-mind-spirit connection mixed with tarot cards and creative journaling to find answers to your day-to-day inquiries!
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