About Spring Ritual

Recently I made a trip to the Monterey Bay Aquarium ( http://www.mbayaq.org ) and was astounded by my experience. Reflecting on it later, I realized I had been astounded by the creativity of the earth on grand display there. Of all the beings I encountered in that visit, those that moved me the most were the sand dollars. Before that trip I had never seen a living sand dollar. I had always only seen their remains, what is left of them after they have lived out their lives. The hardened white remnants I had collected from various beaches through the years I now saw were only skeletons. Looking at their pink purple, pulsing bodies standing together in the sand, alive and sentient. Reading about how they use the tiny hairs all over their bodies to gather food to bring to their mouth, how they eat sand to make themselves heavier in order to withstand the constant movement in their environment, how some of them live up to fifty years, I felt myself to be in a state of deep awe. What creativity must have been present to create such a creature!

Think of a galaxy, the creativity present in the Universe that brought about galaxies and all the creations that flow forth from within the creativity of a galaxy: stars, planets, life…

Our own creativity is of the same vibrant stream. If we thought about it in this way would we continue to treat it the way that we do: with harsh judgement or criticism, comparison and scorn?

Why don't we choose to honor it? To care for it and nurture it? To marvel at the newness constantly emerging from it. Why don't we play with it? Dance with it? Give it the space it needs to bloom and grow? Why not start today?