I loved reading your words as well as the full interview you link to with Kerri ní Dochartaigh. Thank you! I'm realizing, from listening to my own rhythms, my personal new year aligns more with fall and Samhaim when we go into the dark and my emergence is more aligned with Imbolc/Brigid's Day. There's something beautiful, even glimmering, about the idea that things begin in the dark that I'm sitting with now. Thanks for helping me go deeper with this Kathryn.
Love your tuning into your own unique rhythms. We are just starting to see new growth here - tender things that began underground in the dark and are now just emerging. Yet, I am aware the growth has been happening out of sight but in vital ways long before it was visible.
I’ve been pondering your question for a couple of days, Kathryn, because glimmers are harder for me to notice this time of year. Extremely cold weather definitely affects my mood, and my creativity seems to hibernate in January, February. I am more aware of resting, planning, and hoping. I also notice the squirrels in my yard reaping the rewards of acorns hidden months ago, the slightly longer days. And, wow!, I promise I’m not making this up, as I am typing this, a bluebird just visited our bluebird house!
Things like your newsletter affirm connections- with you, your readers, and the content you share. It is really wonderful and interesting to see how experiences can have a common universal layer and an individual unique layer.
Thanks for your noticings - and I love reading about the bluebird visit! I am intrigued by what you say about universal and individual layers, and I am wondering if perhaps there is a seasonality to glimmers? The squirrels you describe seem like a lovely affirmation of a season for rest, planning, and hoping. Thanks for reading and cirlcing back to share your noticings and connections.
I love everything about this, Kathryn. Thank you. You've given me a much needed affirmation for my wandering and noticing here in Florida - the cloud formations, the tree trunks in all their amazing shapes that look so different than those in the midwest, the birds as they call to one another. Next week we go home, and I'm excited to pay attention to all that glimmers there, and how it's changed since we've been gone.
I thought of you when I read that passage about creativity in Kerri ni Dochartaigh's Substack. She is offering a course called Nesting for her subscribers that begins next week, and I'm looking forward to it.
Your newsletter sparks joy, Kathryn. Connecting people through art making is a glimmer; producing the event to connect folks is a glimmer. Every leaf is a glimmer. Mindy
Thank you my friend. I am grateful for your connection and all you share. And yes to the glimmer of leaves in all their seasons. At the moment I'm taken with the beech leaves here, worn thin by winter, they are finally beginning to fall. They resemble leaf-shaped notepaper to me with all their lines.
You affirm my posture in the world ~ especially regarding children. Thankyou💖
Thank you for holding such a beautiful posture in the world, with children and all you encounter.
I loved reading your words as well as the full interview you link to with Kerri ní Dochartaigh. Thank you! I'm realizing, from listening to my own rhythms, my personal new year aligns more with fall and Samhaim when we go into the dark and my emergence is more aligned with Imbolc/Brigid's Day. There's something beautiful, even glimmering, about the idea that things begin in the dark that I'm sitting with now. Thanks for helping me go deeper with this Kathryn.
Love your tuning into your own unique rhythms. We are just starting to see new growth here - tender things that began underground in the dark and are now just emerging. Yet, I am aware the growth has been happening out of sight but in vital ways long before it was visible.
I’ve been pondering your question for a couple of days, Kathryn, because glimmers are harder for me to notice this time of year. Extremely cold weather definitely affects my mood, and my creativity seems to hibernate in January, February. I am more aware of resting, planning, and hoping. I also notice the squirrels in my yard reaping the rewards of acorns hidden months ago, the slightly longer days. And, wow!, I promise I’m not making this up, as I am typing this, a bluebird just visited our bluebird house!
Things like your newsletter affirm connections- with you, your readers, and the content you share. It is really wonderful and interesting to see how experiences can have a common universal layer and an individual unique layer.
Thank you for sharing connections.
Thanks for your noticings - and I love reading about the bluebird visit! I am intrigued by what you say about universal and individual layers, and I am wondering if perhaps there is a seasonality to glimmers? The squirrels you describe seem like a lovely affirmation of a season for rest, planning, and hoping. Thanks for reading and cirlcing back to share your noticings and connections.
I love everything about this, Kathryn. Thank you. You've given me a much needed affirmation for my wandering and noticing here in Florida - the cloud formations, the tree trunks in all their amazing shapes that look so different than those in the midwest, the birds as they call to one another. Next week we go home, and I'm excited to pay attention to all that glimmers there, and how it's changed since we've been gone.
I thought of you when I read that passage about creativity in Kerri ni Dochartaigh's Substack. She is offering a course called Nesting for her subscribers that begins next week, and I'm looking forward to it.
Yes, I am looking forward to the course. Have loved what you posted about her books too.
Wishing you smooth travels home and joys in finding glimmers along the way.
Thanks for the reminder to focus on those Glimmers, Kathryn! They help us a lot to be present, grateful, and see things from a different perspective!
Thanks, Anna. It has been a good reminder for me as well.
Your newsletter sparks joy, Kathryn. Connecting people through art making is a glimmer; producing the event to connect folks is a glimmer. Every leaf is a glimmer. Mindy
Thank you my friend. I am grateful for your connection and all you share. And yes to the glimmer of leaves in all their seasons. At the moment I'm taken with the beech leaves here, worn thin by winter, they are finally beginning to fall. They resemble leaf-shaped notepaper to me with all their lines.