Monday, December 28, 2009

Wild Days

out for a walk

looking for the beavers

Some days are wild days with ringing phones, buzzing doorbells, beeping microwaves, pagers, and clocks. There are mounds of laundry, and dishes, and junk mail and bills to process. There are places to be, appointments to keep, a list of things to do that lengthens twice for every item crossed off ...
but how and when do we recharge our symbolic batteries and fill the empty recesses of our own hearts? We need time away from our hectic lives to live, to connect with ourselves, our world, our creator and one another ...

--Karen Skidmore Rackliffe in Wild Days

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