Bone wind has returned
mother of winter’s chill
sweeping through bare branches
and rattling dusty leaves.The remnants of summer
have completely faded
and the doorway to the new year
has cracked open.With the skeletal swirl of frost and freeze
I see the hint
of new things
waiting to burst from behind the doorHibernating now perhaps
hunkered down to wait it out
resting, biding time, percolating
nestled in darkness
but, oh so ready, to grow.It is only on the surface
that the world prepares to take a long nap
underneath the crust
change boils
life bubbles
new ideas gestate
and time crowns anew
with the promise and potential of birth
held in cupped hands.The flame of fresh ideas flickers
and catches
until the blaze of possibility
envelopes the cold.
Winter is falling across the woods and I find myself filled with an amazing sense of promise and potential about the new year. 2103 has held a lot of transition for my family, it has held the grief of my grandmother’s death, as well as changes aplenty–some changes that are beautifully enriching, creatively inspiring, and relationship enhancing and some changes that have been difficult, sad, trying, and frustrating. Ever since the wind turned towards fall, I’ve felt a sensation of “fall cleaning.” Sweep it out, start fresh, begin again, take a break, pause, regroup, reform, re-try, launch, begin, start new things…I’ve felt it practically in terms of rearranging my house and going on various decluttering missions, but I also feel it inside—my own purpose, focus, priorities, and projects.
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In the past I wrote about what I termed the bone wind here: Woodspriestess: Bonewind | WoodsPriestess
WoodsPriestess 
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