Happy spirits weekend!

November is here! With less daylight, fallen leaves, and double layers. With lit candles, cups of tea, and wolly sweaters. Fall has always been the season when I feel the most. I guess it comes with staying more inside and curling up in my couch, ready to dream, to grieve, to hope, and to long. I've just had a rough week, where I once again had to fight for my survival and safety, to keep my home. So far, so good, but now I need to get that confirmed, and to recuperate. It doesn't become any less emotional with it being All Saint's Day today and All Soul's Day tomorrow. These are the actual two holidays we honor in Sweden, by lighting candles on our loved ones' graves and holding a moment of stillness and gratitude towards those we have lost. Celebrating Halloween is of course fun, but I relate too much with my own experiences from my stays in the United States, to do so here full-heartedly; it becomes like a substitute. Nonetheless, spirits have always fascinated me and since my return from Hawai'i, I have come to accept their presence with less romanticism and more integration. I notice them, but I don't call on them. On several occasions, I've noticed how some spirits seem to be inside trees. Like this one - an owl - passed on, but still in its natural habitat.

Acknowledging their existence, enables me to see death as less final. To understand that there is more to life than we can prove or explain, and through that accept God as the highest power. Letting Him be the one to know. Since I've lost quite a few relatives and acquaintances over the years, it's of course also a feeling of reassurance that they might watch over me, or warn me, through the presence of certain animals, like the Hawaiian people believe. Certain days, entering the forest is like entering the spirit world for a short visit. I think that is what it means that the veil is thin. Humans create so much drama, instead of building and keeping the peace. Not by avoiding any disagreements, but by solving them. Through forgiveness but also through practical hands-on solutions. Nothing else works. Everything else becomes about being right, being governed by Ego.

The more I Iearn about life, the more simple it becomes: All earthlings just want love.