December has arrived, along with our first snow as a festive backdrop for the two Winter Wreath workshops I’m hosting at Forest & Flowers Retreat this month.
Yes, it’s a chance to make wreaths for beauty and decoration, but also to weave an intention for the season — a quiet act that turns ordinary wreath making into something more connected and sacred, because it is.
Wreaths have often symbolized the circle of life, birth, growth, and death — a continuous path with no beginning or end. Evergreen also symbolize cycles and seasons, along with giving and receiving. Whether the wreath is for gifting, or will adorn the door of a home with beauty for all who enter, it is a gift passed on.
“We are showered every day with gifts, but they are not meant for us to keep. Their life is in their movement, the inhale and the exhale of our shared breath. Our work and our joy is to pass along the gift and to trust that what we put out into the universe will always come back.”
-Robin Wall Kimmerer
Continued in the video for you… a poetry reading from Mary Oliver’s book, White Pine, and my journal entry from Leaf, Cloud, Crow.
“What is one legacy you hope to leave behind for years to come — in the natural world and otherwise?”
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