Flow and Divides

“Things have ends and beginnings…” ~ Ezra Pound

My friend Doug and I often talk about the spiritual implications of divides, those lines you can trace on a map that define the location of watersheds (One the map pictured here, the divide is the outline of the colored in area). Once you get a rough sketch of them in your mind, it changes the way you travel through the landscape.  This evening for instance, our group traveled on RT 17 back and forth over a divide that separates the Delaware and the Susquehanna River watersheds.  While we slipped over that ridge on the highway, my mind drifted down the very different paths water might take from that hilltop to reach the ocean.

Which brings me to the sense of temporal divides and the annual turning of the calendar.   I will stumble writing 2009 when it’s time to pull out the checkbook for the next few times. Then there will be a period of a few weeks where each time I go to write the date, hesitation will proceed each mark, at least until it becomes a habit of acceptance. The point is…after a few locating experiences, the water begins to flow in a new direction.

I always look with anticipation as to where the flow of the next year will take me.  More then plans, lists, or resolutions, my sincere intention is to remain open to the unexpected opportunities that will cross my path throughout the upcoming year.

Wishing you good flow in the coming year, and thanks for reading Catskill Cottage Seed.