October 4th, 2024

When we embrace the ancient ways
of being in right relationship
with the earth, the sacred,
and community…

Just days ago, Dennis and I were talking about coincidence, events or circumstances without apparent causal connection, and how the word shares a root with coincide. Which resonates for me as I know all energies coexist. Perhaps it’s only in the noticing that we name it coincidence. A safe place to park it for the skeptics among us. 

Yesterday. I had just finished creating this graphic when there was a knock at the back door. It was a friend of some thirty years but not of particularly frequent social connection. It had been a long time since I’d seen him. He came to tell me his wife died.

We sat together on the front porch while he poured out the story of her illness and death. And he sobbed. It was gut wrenching. I just listened and held him in a space of love. And I kept thinking of this image and these words on grief that I had just created. Coincidence?

I won’t share this graphic with him. I can only hold him in the sentiment and energy of it. He doesn’t have a computer and isn’t on any form of social media. His only technology is an old flip phone. 

I share this story because it reflects the piece I wrote yesterday. This friend is very conservative and we don’t share many political perspectives. But that didn’t matter when he was here with a huge crack in the vessel of his life. That didn’t matter as the tears were flowing. What mattered is that he knew he could come here and be held in love and compassion. 

Such events and circumstances may not appear to have a causal connection. But they do. And if we open to the coexisting energies of the Universe, we can know that. 

Beannacht,
Judith