Such a touching poem. Since I’m in a period that I recognize as my work and familiar struggle into my shadows it is timely to remember what I can lean into when darkness creeps in. They are always times when my home and foundation feel unstable. I have had to start over and move so many times. Finances, keeping up, keeping my body moving and healthy through aging, worried about when I won’t be able to keep the place I call home, all these problems, fears and frustrations seem always in the background and sometimes in the foreground.
And, I am resilient. I have choices to make, intuition to lean into, guides to consult, friends and family to plan strategy with. Even while I take my moment to be with all of it, knowing I will lift back up into the light with a new perspective, a shift of possibility in my future (because I’ve always proven to myself that I can) this darkness serves a purpose. I become more balanced in light and dark. I have more clarity about the process and am more able to support my friendships with understanding that we all go through the dark to get to a higher place,
I look at it today like an old switchboard with cords and plugs. I unplug to go inward, and one by one I plug the cords of angel, close friend, sister, mother, neighbour, community back in, gently as I feel ready. Back in so that I again can be a cord for someone in my energy field of ebb and flow from light to dark and back again.
On Nov 12, 2025 Fiona wrote :