Morning Musing Under the Mother Tree

All grace arises out of presence. Tara Brach

Today is about slowing your roll and taking in the big picture of what is being required of you, both in your personal life and in how you are relating to the outside world and all its calamity. Dr. Michael Lennox (Daily Astro Alert: March 25, 2026)

All grace arises out of presence. In a world where we need so much more grace, I’ve been observing and reflecting on presence. Observing my own presence and lack thereof. Observing how I experience both the presence and lack thereof in relating with others.

Observing the inner peace of full presence I experience when I set aside scattered thoughts and I’m present to the one thing always with me, breath, and to whatever needs attention in that moment. Experiencing the internal war when scattered thoughts take over, seemingly able to resist being guided back to simply attending to breath. I’m reminded of something I wrote decades ago: Scattered thoughts like a herd stampeding go nowhere, fast.

Experiencing the joyful resonance of being fully present with others who are likewise fully present to whatever we are engaged in, along with the disconcerting, disappointing dissonance when I experience that I or the other isn’t fully present.

As I read Dr. Mike’s message about slowing your roll, I felt a resonance in me to step back and look at the bigger picture of presence for the sake of calling forth the co-creation of a world aligned with Life.

I think of The Agreement Beneath All Names with its gentle calling to remember

The ground beneath all nations is the same breathing body.

The sky above all prayers does not choose sides.

 

Then, as we remember, The Agreement’s invitation to

… choose again — each morning, each meeting, each moment of heat—

to respond instead of react,

to include instead of conquer,

to listen long enough for the deeper truth to surface.

 

And I wonder: How do I more fully bring my presence to this call for grace within and without? What are the deeper truths that want to surface? What is possible for our world and our future, if we cooperate and co-create from them? What conversations and invitations am I being asked to engage?

I wonder too as the old power-over, patriarchal systems crumble (explode, dissolve, and fade away) what habits of those systems might we need to lay to rest with them? Might it be useful to pivot from setting goals and rigorously following plans to listening and reimagining what is Life-aligned and allowing ourselves to be guided to that unfoldment? Are efficiency, productivity, and speed habits of these old systems that we need to release to create space for allowing emergence? Is multi-tasking one of many subtle patriarchal tools/habits that separate us from one another and from full presence? What is the sun setting on?

Let’s muse, breathe, and co-create together with Mother Earth and All Life! 

What shall we lay to rest at sunset in the days ahead?