~The End of Things~

I write now from a point of incredible fatigue and happiness.  5 months have gone by since I arrived here at Hawthorne Valley, fresh off a trip to the Amazon, and 2 months have passed since the true beginning of summer farm camp, and I am so drained on every level.

And, I am happy.  For this draining out has come along with wonderful, indescribable experiences of discovery, challenge, celebration, and letting go.

And still further, this has all been happening in the context of an adventurous, youthful, joyous community of peer-workers, set in the larger context of a beautiful, vibrant farming community unlike any other.  I feel such gratitude for this place and for all my family here.  You have all made this summer experience incomparably special.

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So now, as always happens, we shift into a space of closing down, of transition...an exhale of all we have known and loved...so that newness may enter into our space of exhalation.  And for me, this brings strong and complex feelings.  Sadness is marked by gratitude, excitement with anticipation, vulnerability with tenderness.  All of it swirling around inside the deep heart of consciousness...

Ahh, what may come... 

in gratitude,

eka