‘When at last winter came to an end… Mother Earth came along with her candle to wake them up.
“Wake up, children…Time to get up now. You’ve slept long enough. Spring is coming and there’s work to be done…”’
From The Story of the Root Children
I woke this morning and felt drawn outside like a moth to a flame.
Out into the drizzle, the softness of a dove grey day, Candlemas.
I was late for our Friday session and the other wild women had already got out but actually it felt beautiful to be in the water alone as they looked on from the shore.
Another set of women had just got out and a beautiful white dog, Willow, was running from each of our children to the other.
Before I got in,
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