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Wind. It is invisible until it pushes against something. Or plays on water. Or lifts anything loose on its path. No one would dare suggest it is not powerful. And yet wind is lacking in identity without resistance.
Recently I have been re-reading Thomas Moore’s book, “Care of the Soul.” He wrote, “We have come to know the soul only in its complaints; when it stirs, disturbed by neglect and abuse, and causes us to feel its pain. . .We can’t just think ourselves through it, because thinking itself is part of the problem. What we need is a way out of dualistic attitudes. We need a third possibility. . .”
Much like the wind, our essence, our core self is exposed inside the struggles that surface, the conflict we find ourselves in, the places where we feel pain. The symptoms we experience like melancholy and disinterest, they point to what has been unattended to, what is long overdue for attention and discovery. We are creatures of meaning.
Inside these early weeks of Fall, listen for the wind. Be gently reminded of what may need re-membering inside you-

August brings the maturity of tomatoes hanging heavy on the vine. Their round, fat, juicy goodness has been building since early May and in many ways in those long winter days many moons before, where the seed was just giving way to a plant. All the possibility of that tomato emerging at summer’s end was present inside that fledgling seed. It lacked nothing. The environment did the rest- providing soil, water and sunlight to engage all the components that were already vetted inside that tiny cartilage of a seed.
We forget that we are made this way too. Resilience is built in. Capacity is built in too. The bandwidth to think with different eyes or try new experiences- also built in. We lack nothing. It just takes a fair amount of engagement to draw these things together and draw them out of us- to grow. And remember, as a wise person once said, “The day you plant the seed, is not the day you eat the fruit.” The landscape of the heart is a ready garden.