Bridges

Over the past few weeks, I’ve listened to talks during which a number of speakers discussed the significance of bridging. As I’ve been working on the same train of thought, and had planned to entitle this post Herbal Bridges, I’m even more inspired to write about how our senses serve as rather potent magical bridges.

The first post on this blog, Sensing the Moon, is the sharing of a wonderfully spontaneous experience, and is very much about bridging. I encourage you to discover the beautiful simplicity of allowing the natural world around you to engage your senses in this way. Perhaps you too will be transported to a timeless meeting place, a place of belonging and connection.

One of my favourite signs of Spring, one that I have enjoyed many times lately, is the call of a blackbird. Imagine a long ago ancestor, resting by a pond on a soft spring day, listening to the very same song. What an amazing musical bridge. I could swoon.

On a different note, I’d like to touch on a key teaching of Druidry – the importance of building relationship with the place where one lives. Being aware of the scent of the Salish Sea, or of how a salmonberry tastes, connects me in a very tangible way to the place where I was born. And, importantly, this awareness creates bridges, built with meaningful shared experience, between me and the First Nations people on whose traditional lands I live.

The photo for this post was taken during an especially memorable herbal medicine workshop, and includes one of the most sociable cats I’ve known.