The Weather Within

...so, how's the weather inside you today?

You are a rare, dynamic, and delicate ecosystem inside of which each moment brings its own weather. The wild expanse of beautiful and rugged terrain within you is exposed to shifting clouds of emotion that can bring all four seasons in one day.

There are the cool and crisp bluebird sky mornings where your thoughts are sharply etched mountain ridges and your body moves with the grace of a pine-scented breeze.

There are serene and spectacular tropical sunsets tickling white sand where every inch of you is bathed and glowing mai tai orange from the inside out.

There are rainforests and redwoods, pillows of moss and butterflies in kaleidoscopes hues, tulip fields as vast as oceans, and the twinkle of snow sparkling under a midnight sky.

There are also afternoons shrouded in steely grey skies where each anxious thought is a misty molecule forming a fog so thick its icy fingers reach all the way to your bones.

There are swaths of parched earth, vast lawns of grasses yellowed with thirst, winds whipping waves into peaks of black water, and rain clouds swollen and heavy with unwept tears.

And it's all beautiful and terrible and savage and sweet.

And it will change.

And it will pass.

And there will be times where you will need to weather the storm.

But there will also be times where you can help the weather along.

You can move your body to breath in a gentle wind to coax away the fog, you can ground in seated stillness to calm turbulent seas, and you can write in quiet contemplation to resow the fields in your heart that have gone barren.

So, how's the weather inside you today?