The "Love Can Mend" pennant is back from being a part of Mo's powerful installation of love, "I Dream of a World Where Love is the Answer". Mo's vision, talents and magic gathered together love and hope from around the world. I wish I could have been in that room and have been surrounded by the energy of it all.
There is some weariness going on here, just as there was in the making this, and remembering what I wrote, back in November, when sending it off to Mo, "...maybe this is how it really is. This work and struggle for peace, healing the earth, trying to find a way through- It doesn't usually happen because everything is a calm and hunky-dory garden of sweet peas and roses. The ripped and rough places show us what's really going on, and call to us for mending. For most of us, we do what we can with what we have. Piecing together whatever kind of inner scraps we might have within. And just maybe, all of the frayed worn bits can be brought together and worked into a kind of wholeness again."
While I'm sad that the gathering is over, it's been good to have it back, as a reminder that there is love and beauty in mending.
Mo's generosity continued with the added gifts of one of her brilliant stars, bit of blue and a cloud of wedding cloth (I see some sails in there...). And while wrapping the ties in the tree for photos, there was a sudden movement to the left, turning my head, there was a hummingbird mid-air, eye-level, within arms reach. We looked at each other for a split second before it zipped away, another gift.
A heart-deep thank you to Mo and the Gathering, oxo.
