Spring display

I'm a four times a year blogger, or so it seems. I blog with the changing of the seasons.

Many wonderful and special thoughts go through my head that I would love to catch if I could.

Sometimes I think: that's a nice thought - I should write it down. So I follow it, circling through my head, out of it (through the front somewhere, I always imagine) into the air, ready to be caught, still. Then evaporating, into the sky, the universe - to live on, to mature, to blend. Without the boundaries of words. Free.

I had one today. It's not just a thought, it's more of a notion.

As you may or may not know, I am a spiritual person. But my spirituality seems to clash with boundaries of traditions.

I am a nature person, that's where I can feel a very deep spirituality. Deep and green, black as the earth, clear as water, blue as the sky, bright as the sun. I can be seen to lean with my spine against a tree, imagining it supporting me and giving some extra strength.

And God knows I need that.
There you have that other mainstream in my spirituality. God. As a minister's daughter I have been brought up in a Protestant tradition.

I can tell you I have had my deep downs and lots of fights with it - you can still see my heelmarks here and there in some cities of my youth. Near churches that is.

In the real depth of my being the roots of the spirituality have never ceased to grow. And later it emerged, surfaced in ever widening concentric circles.

Encompassing everything and then letting go as it ripples on. I am maturing into a loose tradition. Still a bit like what I learned in Sunday school: God created everything. All That Is. Everything on earth - and gave spirit to every little bit of it. Every little particle. So it can create and grow itself. I can and love to live with that.

Spring for instance. Creating itself in all its glory.

I may write a poem, paint a picture, take a photo, I need to go with that spirit and Create. I compiled a Spring display-table....

Making 'display-tables' is something that I have begun to take up recently.

I did that at school, of course, when I was teaching. I created displays of every little thing to illustrate whatever I was teaching. I loved doing that.

Since I had to stop teaching and painting and all those things that require sitting up or standing for longer periods of time, I have started to create in the secluded surroundings of my own home. In corners, on small tables, bookshelves. All I need is a horizontal surface to start creating 'subject'-displays.

This is a spiritual Spring display.

You may discover little items of other religions/traditions in it. And correctly so. Each particle has its own meaning, its own 'soul' and together they co-create a new, larger one, more meaningful.

See that's what I like to be: As varied as nature itself. Life has no boundaries. My spirituality has none either...

Bless you!

Have a wonderful Season -

be it Spring or Fall, if you're down-under...

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