How nice it is to be home today… Leaves are dancing outside, and the trees around my home are almost bare. It is windy and rainy, so yes, a perfect day to be here enjoying a hot latte while typing these words. My daughter is home sick, and I even though she is not feeling so well, I can hear her singing in the other room and it makes me happy.

There is something about Fall. Somehow the changes happening outside create an opening in my heart. I know this sounds cheesy, but I do crack open: emotions deepen, intuition flourishes, creativity bursts out of me, and thoughts ask to expressed in writing. Summer is such a go-go season, I am always on the run, life is busy and sunny, and there is no time to go within.

Wherever you are today, I hope this day cracks you open. I hope you embrace the mess, go within, and feel all those changes that this time of the year brings. Fall and all.

Ah… the joys of a good thunderstorm! I was outside doing some work around the house this morning when the sounds of thunder delighted me. It was loud, it was intense, it was coming from such depths… It felt so vibrant, and it made me feel alive.

Truth is I have not not been feeling that flow that I adore, that feeling of being connected. Being out in the hustle and bustle of everyday life, I sometimes lose that vibrancy, and shut down to the delights of quieting down. Being busy will do that to you, won’t it? I like to think that I can catch myself when I start sliding into “busy bee mode” (not taking time to go within), but honestly it happens so quickly, and it can go unnoticed for a very long time… But the thunderstorm brought me back. I snapped out of it. Like a rapture, it created such an intense feeling of belonging, it made me feel part of it all. Alive and well. Vibrant, and wanting to write, wanting to express, wanting to burst open, just like a storm bursts open the sky.