I learned that yesterday was my 14 year WordPress anniversary marking almost a decade and a half of blogging and sharing via this website.

Some of you have been with me since the very start, others I’ve connected with along the way, but one thing is for sure – this blog has become a beautiful tapestry where all of our wonderful threads have intersected richly.

And for that, I’m hugely grateful for, as many of the relationships I consider my soul family and dearest friends have nearly all been woven here.

Thank you, from hear to heart! The community made possible here on WordPress has been rich and invaluable.

I love that this anniversary falls on 1/31 – my mom’s birthday! Yay!

I didn’t realize I started this blog then, so that was a cool little synchronicity to learn.

But anyway, yesterday also marked her amazing 82nd year upon this Earth. My mom and I have always been super close and have a deeply, inseparable and telepathic connection beyond just mother and child. You can feel the love I think in this photo of us at Niagara Falls.

My mom embodied the sacred womb that nurtured my own life to start – yay!

And that brings us to today – February 1st – which marks Imbolc (the halfway mark between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox that celebrates the sign of light and stirring new life stepping forth from the darkness that is beginning to fade), but it is also my dear Nestor’s day of birth this go around, 22 years ago.

I celebrate Nestor (my twin soul who came in rabbit body this time), as her presence in my life was the igniting of so much for me, including bringing the rest of the soul family gang – Joy, Gaia, Cosmo, and Astrid into my life.

In fact, she and Astrid are so much alike I often would mix up their names. All of them worked/and continue to work together with me.

And then yesterday started a big storm that’s supposed to last a week here and is looking to kick off a series of storms for February. This first one they’re calling an atmospheric river, turning into snow. However, while we get rain and wet snow the first few days at our elevation, it’s snowing at the tops of the mountains. Big yay for our snowpacks, as precipitation is a blessing for our Summers. This storm is supposed to last a week and it’s looking like more on the way after that. We’ll see!

Synchronously, the same thing happened last year on the same day, which kicked off the biggest part of our Winter then. My birthday month seems to be the deepest part of Winter the last couple of years (not including the historical year of snow for my 50th). In fact, everything is mirroring last year so far in terms of warmer Winter temperatures and later snowfall.

Anyway, lots of things to celebrate right now and celebrating does feel to be a positive way to impact life.

It reminds me of this post and Tedx talk I shared back in February of 2018 from Dewitt Jones:

Celebrate What’s Right With The World

I think that’s a great place to leave today’s short post, with a revisit of this perspective that I think could help in these contrasting and perhaps, for many, challenging-to-navigate times.

There are a lot of beautiful things igniting and creative potency for us to harness. So much healing and transformation is available even if it doesn’t look or seem like it. When you shift perspective, you can jump aboard a new timeline train.