PeregrinaMom

It is snowing this morning in La Rioja wine country…… I was out and about early this morning with my dog, Lolita....... still dark and the city covered in precious silence.

I love times like these……..

Lolo, was enjoying being off the leash, running free, being her natural self… occasionally turning to see me as if she could not believe it…… ‘I am off the leash!’….’in the city nonetheless….. are you sure its ok?’ her eyes seemed to say.

With every passing moment, the snowflakes kept getting bigger, thicker, sticking to the ground below us…. I could not help but notice the flakes sticking on my fleece….. each, unique, precious, vulnerable to melting with my body heat….. like all of us……. each of us is unique, precious and vulnerable to melting when the heat of life gets to us….yet, each snowflake, joining their fellow snowflakes falling to the ground, created something magnificent for Lolo and I to enjoy……. the stillness of the Ebro River, the patterns of the snow on the grass, the tingling in my fingers from the cold, the briskness of our steps, the patterns on the trees and bushes lining the river….. something beyond my words can describe.

……… like us, as humanity, can be when together, united by the common thread……. of being the change we want to see in the world…. peaceful, each unique, precious and admitting our own vulnerabilities…. yet a part of something greater than ourselves. ….. in this case, each snowflake, a part of the cold front hitting us……

I had a lovely time, my ears are still cold, but the experience of the stillness, the river, the lights, the silence, the whiteness, each snowflake on my fleece, returning to days long gone trying to get snowflakes on my tongue…….. this moment of wonder and awe was the universe’s gift to me this morning.

………. And so it is… as I look out my window, the city being blanketed by white, I think of myself as a snowflake, just one snowflake being part of something greater than myself……. but a part nonetheless.

Peace and all good.