22 September 2006
Autumn Equinox
Tonight the hours of dark equal the hours of daylight. Tomorrow the hours of dark will be greater, and each day the dark will advance until Winter Solstice, when the sun will come to stasis (stand still) and the longest night will reassure us that the light will return. For now, best we prepare for the coming cold.
The trees are storing sugars and making the buds that will blossom forth next spring. I am gathering kindling and stacking firewood, rolling up the garden hoses, bringing in the tender plants, harvesting hops and wild seeds, and calculating how many bales of hay the goats will need to tide them through the stormy, snowy months.
My heart is smiling tonight for I am surrounded by the Green Nations: folks who love the green. This is one of the finest gatherings of plant-loving, earth-connected herbalists available. If you have never gone, mark you calendar and save your pennies for next year. It is an event that many of us attend every single year, for it feeds us in deep and delicious ways.
Open up to the cold. Breath deeply. It's ever so good for your immune system to get some cold air circulating. Feeling the cold in September and October helps your body make the changes necessary for winter health.
If you haven't yet visited my webcast radio shows, I invite you to enjoy the great shows I do monthly for healthylife.net and weekly for ladybuglive.com The shows are archived for up to year, so there is lots of great listening at both sites; plus plenty of other exciting speakers you may want to check out.
The healthylife.net show is a fast-paced show that arises from my reading of a hundred periodicals a month. It airs the first Tuesday of each month.
On ladybuglive.com I am reading my books out loud, with commentary, of course. I've read Healing Wise (and it is available as a 3 sets of CDs) and am in the midst of reading New Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way.
My appearance on ABC News Nightline happened so fast I didn't have time to let you know. One moment a jolly crew was at the Wise Woman Center (in the rain) filming and the next moment it was on Channel 7. The clip (which is about The Wicker Man; my piece is near the end) may still be available at abcnews.com/nightline
Green blessings.
Susun
so good advices for the autumn to come, I'll make the herbal tea and breathe and relax...and rest...you imagine the travel to come and see you, it's so far away from my tiny bit of France...but I have my magic bubble it's fast, safe and doesn't pollute...
see you dear, I'll come back
Mousie
Posted by: Mousie | October 03, 2006 at 11:47 PM
just want to say I saw the abc news show with your appearance. I had no idea you'd be on, so I got to show hubby my special teacher. What a treat!
-linda
Posted by: linda | October 03, 2006 at 12:12 PM