Do you also grief the seasons passing?

There is a strange feeling I woke up with today. It is a nostalgic one that I have allowed and welcomed. A sense of sadness and the longing to have something for a little bit longer but knowing that is just not how it is. It also somehow feels like just yesterday that this shift was here. It was also exactly a year ago when my parents were visiting us here in Northumberland and there was this lingering sadness while preparing my heart for their departure again. This might also be why I feel this in my being recently. 

As a sensitive one - a quiet one - I feel that it is so important to allow this to be another aspect of myself to be expressed so that my children can also be familiar with this and make sense of the nostalgia they very often also feel but struggle to put the right words to it. It has helped to be outside and to inhale the current flavour of the air. Someone has their wood-stove going and I can also smell the sweet cow manure from the field above - say what you will there is no better smell than that..  

The cold shift in the air is strong as the wind blows through my hair today. Thistle seeds still keep flying all over the place. We are clearing land to prepare a beautiful space for growing food and herbs on a larger scale. With permission from the landowner, we intend to turn it into a food and medicine garden with a few wild pockets of meadow and trees. Bringing in the balance. I intend to also put my focus onto expanding my cultivated medicinal herbs that are required for tea blends, tinctures and oil infusions. These will take some time to get established so I will still forage and support local growers in the meantime. I am so excited to see where this goes over the years. We all get involved. for now we decide where the composting will go.