dynamic stillness...

It was cool today,  the sky was moody and the wind quite articulate.  The effect of the dry hot summer allowed the breeze to blow the unprepared leaves off their branches and into a stirring dance in the yard. That stirring is also affecting me...the end of summer, the beginning of fall, the end of playtime, the beginning of ... God knows what.  

Everything is preparing to shift -- summer's over, fall's not quite here; shorts don't feel the same, yet it's too soon for blue jeans and cowboy boots.;  holidays are coming but it's not time to shop.  There's an excitement of change, but a bewilderment of what that change is.

I recently learned a term called 'dynamic stillness." It means a time when there's no sign of outward activity, but there's an internal gathering of energy as preparation for what's next.  I love this expression.  It's where I am. So I'm going to sit in the stillness and expect the best .....