“Because of the chaos of the family life I grew up in, I have been a person who always found sanity and safety in the out of doors. Coming to WHF just seems like the best experience of “coming home.” It’s the most natural thing in Nova Scotia, this gentleness and strength of the landscape. When a place (and beings) are accorded honor and respect, then the best comes forward in everyone, in everything. This is my experience and memory always of WHF — a place where who your parents are, (Jim and Margaret) and what they do, magnetizes the best people to make things happen in a good way.”
Leila shared these words with me after visiting Windhorse Farm for the Earth Gathering in April. She also shared a moon meditation practice that she encourages anyone to practice who is so inclined.
“The beauty and learning of this meditation practice over a minimum of 2 weeks (either waxing time or waning time), we get to realize deeper qualities of what we “see” all the time and kind of take for granted, — which is the phases of the moon. We get to track the changing position, light and shape of a heavenly body. This is what surely we could call “ordinary magic.” Until I started doing this mindfulness practice, I couldn’t explain to myself or anyone else the why and how of the moon’s appearing form and movement. So this practical, daily, outside practice, seems appropriate for all our programs — and certainly the ones I’ve done at WHF.”
