I built this cairn years ago. It makes me incredibly happy. The cairn sometimes feels gravity. All of the stones fall or part fall and I put them back in place.
The stone on top is black, smooth and a bit curved.
It feels good in my hand.
It often slides off.
It often slides off.
I pick it up and put it back This has been going on for years on a regular basis. I can spot that stone missing from the house. I wander out pick it up and put it back.
This fall it want missing. Poof gone...did the fairies reclaim it? It is hiding right in view? I have raked and gotten down on my hands and knees searching for it.
I searched for it last fall. I tried once again today.
I do not see it. It is not there.
I have given the place of honor at the top to a new stone. This one is red, rough and straight.
Doesn't feel so good in my hand
yet it is a very handsome stone indeed.
AND and it has already slid off.
Letting go of anything, understanding
why things change is not so easy.
I was content with the status quo of my familiar black stone. I may never know the why of it leaving.
I am learning the lesson of accepting
that it has gone to another place.
that it has gone to another place.
