Its hard for us to believe, but we are now on the eve of departure from Sedona. The months we have been here have been captured in many pictures, some of which I have shared on this blog.
Yet, the pictures are just little glimpses of the treasure house of memories of our time here.
We will carry those memories with us, and they will continue to do their alchemy in our souls.
The little place perched high on a hill we call home here will continue to house many of those memories, and it will be good to imagine this special heart space waiting for us when we return next winter.
But now our hearts are turning towards our home in Michigan. How blessed we are to be able to live in two such beautiful places, and to be able to enjoy the company of friends and family in them both. Sedona and Saugatuck/Douglas are so very different. Yet beauty and love tie them together in our hearts.
As we pack up, clean up, and make all the necessary arrangements for closing down one place and opening up the other, we remind ourselves, when it all seems a bit much, that this is what goes with the privilege of having two places we call home.
I look around me at this place, and it is so vivid and real. Michigan seems so far away and in some ways unreal. Yet I know that in a a little more than a week, it will be just the opposite. I will be back into life in Michigan, and looking out at the Great Lake instead of the valley and red rock mountains. And our life here will seem almost like a dream, or another world.
Many sages remind us that life really is much like a dream. Places and events and patterns of daily life slip through us and merge into the river of life now behind us in a past we can only touch through memory. Every moment quickly passes. Life cannot be grasped and held, it can only be lived as fully as we can, one moment at a time. Many people our age (that would be the senior stage of life!) agree that as we draw closer to the end of our years on this planet, that river of life seems to flow more and more swiftly towards that great waterfall at the end that plunges into Life Eternal. Yet, that Life Eternal is mysteriously present in each "Now" as well. It is the Divine Presence which is our true home, wherever we live. And for me, that Presence is experienced most intensely in Beauty and Love.
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