The toad I met in the woods today.
Week 6-/Yesod (FOUNDATION)-Day 4/Netzach (ENDURANCE)
"If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.""
-Thich Nhat Hanh-
Today I took the class for a walk into the forest. We went early to miss the heat only to discover our meadow being mowed and unavailable. We took a minute or two to regroup ending up going down another trail, steeper and narrower but okay for kids who have hiked with me over half a year. All of a sudden something hopped from our path. It was a big, brown, bumpy toad! We were all delighted and took our time observing. I felt as though toad was speaking to me, a wise wizard that might appear in a fairy tale. When toad was in the same place on our return trip back the same way I was sure of it. Nu?
After nightfall on Tuesday:
BA-RUCH A-TAH ADO-NAI E-LO-HE-NU ME-LECH HA-OLAM
ASHER KID-E-SHA-NU BE-MITZ-VO-TAV VETZI-VA-NU AL SEFI-RAT HA-OMER.
Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the Universe, who has sanctified us with His commandments, and commanded us concerning the counting of the Omer.
Today is thirty-nine days which is five weeks and four days of the Omer.
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