The online retreat this week was, for me, insightful and catalytic to say the least. It has opened up new lines of enquiry and showed me the areas that need more focus.

What a team we have and my heartfelt gratitude goes out to all those participating, for providing the insight and reflexions that make these gatherings so special.

Today i walked around a small lake and noticed a herons feather, at the edgeof the water, next to a pile of frog spawn. I noticed the incredible patterning in the feather and thought about it`s relation to the frog spawn.

It spoke of the cycle of birth/death/rebirth and with it came the realisation that absolutely everything in the universe is transient, nothing stays the same, even for a moment. Even the most seemingly still and solid thing like a stone in a wall is continuously changing, ie it`s temperature will change along with it`s enviroment, it may be wet or baked dry, it is on a planet that spins and moves through space. So the stone may appear to be still in the microcosm but in the macrocosm it is never the same.

For me, the realisation that i am influenced by both macro and microcosm at the same time and that all is transient, ever changing and never fixed, tells me i can be who/what i feel to be in this moment, because in the next everything will have changed!

Kev