In our Evolutionary Collective Zoom meetings, each of us is paired randomly with another participant to do a practice which takes 15 or 30 minutes.

The main question we ask each other is “What are you experiencing?”  Responses typically focus not on thinking, feelings or body sensations … but on simple adjectives, verbs, images. 

What frequently comes to me in those moments is something hanging above me and us … often a mysterious cloud.  Sometimes shimmering, alive in its gentleness, a blessing from above.  The tiny droplets fall upon us and moisten our foreheads.

This morning, as I walked on the Oudburg, my home street, I looked up.  Above the turquoise walls of Number 55 sat six beings.  I’d been aware of them for months but I’d never really seen them.

Six kids, left to right: sucking her thumb, holding a finger to the cheek in wonder, spreading the fingers wide, punching the air, and two letting the sunshine caress their faces.

It was the same as many of my EC practices … goodness descending, a young spirit, well-wishing.

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I am accompanied in life

By marvelous human beings

And by others …