10.5.13

 

                                                                                         vata

in the states it's fall now, snow has started falling in colorado.  leaves are turning and harvest season out west is in full swing.  this is the first time in the three years i've been traveling that i haven't been in the hills for fall.  no Southern Humboldt.  i'm free from free - a new kind of freedom.

i do miss the feeling of living out of bounds.  i miss the feeling of family, camaraderie, community, tomfoolery, of being in on the joke.

my time there has ended, but my time out in the world?  after all these years of wandering i finally feel that it's truly just begun.  so it was a means to a beginning after all - not an end..... but i do find myself missing this time of year in that particular place. 

so i had to laugh when i came across this mantra for staying grounded during fall:

"The mantra So Hum.  So Hum is the sound of the breath, translating to I Am. It is energetically grounding, guiding us out of the mind and into a place of connection.  So Hum is practiced by internally saying the mantra connected to the breath, So on the inhale, Hum on the exhale."

(i love you. xx)