Married to Mother Earth

There comes a time when you need to just lay down at Mother Earth's alter and surrender to her.  Come with an open heart and commit yourself as an empty vessel for her to her to fill.  It is time to promise that you will accept her guidance. You will do your best to know when that storm is in your way to build your strength and resolve or are the winds meant to guide you on her right path?  Regardless, you will find gratitude for every bluster, hurricane and gentle summer breeze flirting with your hair.  You will vow to the universe that you will find beauty in her everyday and to share your gratitude with her and others.  You will honor her by being your best possible self.  On that day when you commit to love and self acceptance they will in turn fill your life.  This marriage to her creates endless dreams and a lifting of your hopes because a love you never could have imagined surrounds you with deep and peaceful joy.  

The universe has been sending me the most amazing gifts, most recently a gift came in the form of a dear old friend who I've known since I was a baby.  It's sort of a long story, but for two very different reasons we both ended up in Iceland with wedding dresses hidden in the crevices of our luggage and a secret hope to create something beautiful and healing in the mind blowing Iceland landscape. As we both packed, getting ready for this journey, we had no idea that we shared this desire, neither did we know that the other was even going to be traveling to Iceland.  Complete shock and joy as we found each other in Reykjavik. We live far apart and haven't seen each other much in the past decade, but as old and true friends do, we picked up the conversation right where it left off.  Several days of giggles and long chats in the hot tub under the stars and northern lights at the tip of the planet soothed my soul and also set my creativity ablaze.  This is not the first time the universe sent me this friend when I needed her most.  It seems she appears almost like magic drawn to me when I am experiencing an internal earthquake.  She said; "I am here to remind you in this time of change who your core self is, your child self, your true self.  To help you hold on to that as you journey through this because I am the witness to your past that will help you find your future."

Here is what we made together.  It was like playing dress up again as we had done a million times in childhood, running free and wild in the wilderness, hunting for faeries, building forts, being naughty (me more then her, let's trespass I urge her, its just a silly law, no one owns this earth) imaginations and giggles completely uncontrollable.  Just like a million times before, but this time my camera gets to document it, and I think, this is exactly what mother earth must have seen as she shone her endless golden sun down on us countless times before.  What a blessing that this time I get to see it through her eyes, and now, and that I can share it with you.


"If you ask the universe for patience you will get a bank line up. Life does not give you what you ask for.  Life gives you the people, places and situations that allow you to develop what you ask for.  And if you don't get it the first time, life will give it to you again.  Because life is very generous that way"