What’s the something-missing?
What’s the something-missing?
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In the spirit of non-perfectionism, my passion for rekindling nature-connection does not come from a wilderness adventurer lifestyle, nor a scientific education in flora and fauna, nor a family steeped in turtle-refuge care.
My calling for re-recognizing our woven-by-nature design comes from a place where Quality matters.
Quality of the food we eat – from the soil microbiome it grows in; the water wisdom that hydrates it; the air essences that condition it; and the sun that photonically feeds it. The valuing of these ecosystems equates to the Quality of the life we live, including the knowable seens and the subconsciously-noticed-innately-felt unseens. The valuing of our personal ecosystems influences the Quality of how we relate, with the natural environments within and around us; the people in our families and daily life; and the people we haven’t met or who we don’t really understand very well. The fundamental Quality of Nature functions on the premise of biodiversity that begets adaptation and further biodiversity. Hence, our re-acclimation of the whole-self-care Quality of biodiversity for ourselves-as-Nature, brings the regenerative future we know is possible for the whole of the planet.
On the surface, reconnecting seems like starting over from a chaotic mess of forgotten traditions, defunct concepts, and blatant disregard for unbusyness. How on Earth are we going to find our sea legs for better balance, connect barefooted to the heartbeat of our heartbeat, and breathe fresh air to upgrade our vitality base? It’s like relearning our mother-tongue, our language-of-origin, lost in translation to a generation, an era, of disregard for its fundamental importance amid modern progress.
When everything is connected to e v e r y t h i n g, it's not lost.
But it may be dormant.
We are very likely called to go inward in reflection and self-noticement, and also outward to humbly reconnect with the ones who remember, to consciously recreate or regenerate the something-missing that we inadvertently ache for, under over-consumeristic ways, flitting attention spans, and what-do-I-do-next pinings.
If your wings feel like they have been clipped, rest assured their original blueprint exists in the all-that-is.
And while the Fabric is a big place, we are looked after by the umbilical strand of Nature that we are here to steward. As we work together to bring synergy through our individual efforts, we have an opportunity to channel the energy from our frustration or anger or feeling thwarted-in-broad-daylight, into the regenerative revelations already starting to unfold. One thread at a time. Empowering connection with our innate-knowingness.
Have you ever felt like you somehow dropped the ball amid all this?
Had you just talked more with your aging parent, recorded their voice to preserve your language inheritance, kept up with your piano lessons, read more or kept singing the songs, held onto the aged artwork, stood by to help fix and build things to know how they work…
Growing up I was part of a sailing family…every weekend, every summer holiday. And while I can still remember what it felt like to sit on the rail with my barefeet leaning in to kiss splashing waves; and know how to cleat a main-sheet; when to reef the sail in strong winds; and the difference between the jib, genoa, and spinnaker; taking a boat out on my own feels more daunting than ever – having lost the natural felt-sense for omni-knowing-coordination of wind-direction, water-patterns, tiller-savvy, sea charts, and sail-adjustments.
In many ways, it feels daunting to re-introduce myself to ways-of-Nature that used to be taken for granted. People simply knew the names of birds, different kinds of trees and their uses, the now so-called weeds that grow in fields and ditches – never mind their significance or healing properties.
Is it any wonder we don’t feel as fundamentally resilient or connected, even with all our virtually-trained-screen-thumbing?
Surfers, canyon-river-kayakers, mountain-climbers.
Craftsmanshippers, foragers, culinary artists, the poetic way your dad kicks a soccer ball.
We crave masterclasses to master something.
Anything.
The something-missing we never grew up with. We had but let go of. Or couldn’t hang on to. Or that was on the some-day wish list.
To have that sense of ease.
Of mastery.
Of innate Knowingness.
This is what we are regenerating – whether our technology has distracted us from it, or is bringing us closer to it through online connections like these. Our techno-connectedness has made so much available (for better or worse), and how we choose to integrate our new levels of awareness shape our feedforward loop to the future we are creating in the now.
This has become my life’s work, and is why my passion for wholistified living exists…as a bridge to remind us we can baby-step our way back-to-forward…maybe even simpler than we think, as we become Connected-Individuals together.