Sunday, May 21, 2023. Every year in the Great Lakes, Sivan is the month when we get to finally celebrate spring. It is here at last, and we are so grateful after seven months of cold! Just last week it was 32 degrees in the morning, and now this! Greenery and flowers abound! And not only the trees and plants are bursting – the woods are full of noisy birdsong. Just this morning my Merlin app recorded Tennessee Warbler, Song Sparrow, Yellow Warbler, Red-Winged Blackbird, Baltimore Oriole, Warbling Vireo, Tufted Titmouse, American Redstart, Black-and-White Warbler, Bay-breasted Warbler. So many friends shouting in joy, as are all of us!
Sivan is the month of peony and iris, honeysuckle and dogwood. It is also the month of creativity and unity, as we receive our Torah at Shavuot, amid the bounty of G-d’s creation. Two of our walkers celebrate their wedding anniversary today, as they do on the first of Sivan every year – what an auspicious day to start a partnership! Our sages tell us of the unity of our people on that day at the foot of Mount Sinai, when G-d revealed G-dself, and the lessons by which we would live. We said, together, “All that G-d has spoken, we will do.” May we all find ways to partner and work together in unity as spring opens the universe to us. – K. Miriam
Our next Rosh Chodesh walking meditation, honoring the month of Tammuz, will be Tuesday morning, June 20, at 7:30 am. Please contact us for location.
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