today, the storm has passed. the sun is shining, and although i feel alittle woozy, i am up and about and feeling much better.
today we have started to move furniture into Ganesh Kutir. including setting up the little alcove puja at the front door with Ganesha on it scribing the vedas.
narayan helped me do it. we put it together, and then walked down to ma labyrinth together to get ganesha. we asked MA if we could take him, and she said "of course". narayan looked at me and said "phew, i thought she was going to say no" bless his cotton socks.
so he ran the lines of the labyrinth with a wheel of wood in his hands like a steering wheel. making sounds like the indi 500 as he turned all the corners. usually this would drive me nuts. but i wove in and out of my mantra while invoking pratyahara, and quietly listening to the innocence and joy he was exuding as he semi-ran.
when we got to the middle. i was feeling simplified. stripped down. clean. grateful. joyful.
and i asked him what he could see. "nothing" he replied, as though it was an enquiry as to what he did at school that day. "what do you see?" he asked.
"i see sunshining through each individual fir needle." "oh me too!" he said as if he had only just realised what he was standing in front of. "i see the blueness of the sky making crisp contrast to the greeness of the trees, and the golden grass as the floor"... "oooh me too!."
and then he turned to me "mum" in a hushed voice, "shh... can you hear that? i can hear the trees breathing...."
and that was all i needed for my heart to soar.
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