There certainly is a bias toward light, even within the communities set up to assist with healing and transformation. Thankfully, the balance is returning and exposing all artifice in its wake.

May we open to the darkest aspects of self, and embrace them with honesty and compassion. The parts that refuse to hold space for another. The parts of us that articulate in judgement. The parts that try to skip steps, avoiding the deep, dark and cold waters, preferring to tip toe and splash about in the sun warmed shallows. To the parts that abandon ourselves in this process of abandoning the “other.”

Through this honest embrace, we sacrifice our fears, push aside ego and excuses, and make space for the return of balance. May we open ourselves to the gifts of nature (regardless of how they present) so that we might know one another in our wholeness "for the very first time."

With love, light and a healthy dose of darkness.