Warmth

It is still wet and the morning is both foggy and still.  The change in time happened again - it's the approach of the spring eqinox and the way we play with light.  The temperature here has crept up 10 degrees into the mid-50's.  After the frigid rains last week, this feels warm.  It's Sunday, and the clocks have moved forward by an hour.

This phenomenon of playing with time is something that gets debated.  Entire states will, on a given day, decide it is the moment when all clocks should be changed by one hour. The arguments for maintaining this practice, which apparently began when people used the light of day as a vital reference, is not all together clear.  The arguments for stopping the practice makes sense.  Why play with time like this?

It's another debate that distracts.

Today's news has few stories about how human beings are getting along.  Maybe it would be boring, who knows?  Mostly the stories are about how relations are filled with conflict.  Those things that make people suffer:  fear, doubt, suspicion, delusion are all reflected in the stories about how the human connections in the world are doing.  There seems to be little interest in how people find ways to make life less scary.  The warmth is not just in the temperature swings we live with;  but also in the ways in which we see each other, work with one another, care for others as part of caring for ourselves.  Maybe there just isn't enough time.  

Thoughts are going to the need for warmth, not just in how the weather is delivers each day;  but also in how we are being with one another in times of distress. It's great for those who find sufficient connection by going to a sanctuary once a week; but how does one generate the feeling of oneness and flow throughout the rest of the week?  This is the trick.  

Suggestions for self-awareness, self-care, seeing the whole and the singular in one view, fully resting when it is time to rest, fully working when it is time to work - all of these ways can be cultivated.  In short, the expression is to "be here now.".   And when in the 'now' fully, there is a discovery to be made:  there is so much more happening than one might ever have realized.  Sitting and sharing the idea of what it is to be warmth, in the now, moves beyond temperature readings.

It is in how one will greet the day, how one will share a nod, how one will bring the hands to actions that will give the warmth that this world needs so desperately. That's what is happening in this moment, on this day of drizzle and fog - the temperature is rising.