12/25/2025
Good morning!
Please allow me a few minutes to get my holiday cry out of the way.
A good ole’ healing, soul cleansing, gratitude cry.
You all can’t imagine the amount of love and gratitude that brims from eyes that are looking back at this past year.
A year of massively swift changes, both with my personal living situation to relocating Sanctuary Massage and Sauna.
Embracing silence over distraction. Trusting, despite that egoic mind which LOVES to diminish beauty.
Through the chaos and questions, I ALWAYS lean on a few foundational truths.
That LOVE is Light.
Wonderment allows for mysticism.
And surrender is fortifying.
Friends, thank you for showing up, supporting, sharing, inviting, teaching, referring, laughing, crying, and BEING, as we journey through life
life-ing.
Personally, poetry ( or music ) can articulate far better this swirling of emotions bumping around a wild heart.
So, I’ll leave what I read this morning below this message.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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To Know the Dark
by Wendell Berry
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
“Wendell Berry’s poem is a quiet, powerful reminder that the dark, too, is alive. We don’t need to light it up to know the dark; when we learn to enter the world of the dark, without sight, we become aware of other ways of sensing, being and communicating.
“To Know the Dark” invites us to trust the unknown, and to recognize that both dark and light hold truth.”
(Nadia Colburn)
