It’s late, and the countryside is properly dark—the kind that swallows the path until a headlamp reveals a single step. Adrien walks the dog and meets two green eyes in the forest. Ingrid listens for the soft rustle of deer sleeping below the bedroom window. Together we wonder what darkness is asking of us this season: to see less, to feel more, and to trust the compass we carry in our bodies.
We talk about uncertainty as a practice—how one clear step is enough when the next five haven’t formed—and the difference between meaningful effort and the old belief that we must “earn” every good thing by suffering first. Ingrid names the grief she’s been courting (and resisting), the impulse to over-engineer healing, and the relief of letting feeling come on its own time. Adrien remembers a life organized by plans and metrics, and the widening that arrived when planning gave way to presence.
We explore Joanna Macy’s four worldviews—battlefield, trap, lover, self—and notice where we slip into certainty or check out entirely. What would it be like to act from “world as lover, world as self,” to belong so deeply we can’t exile each other—or ourselves?
We end with a simple hand-and-breath practice to return to the body, and an invitation: write a letter to yourself from Earth. What does she ask of you in this season of long nights and quiet work beneath the soil?
If you’re living with questions, may this be company for the dark—and a lantern for the next true step.
An Invitation:
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Much love,
Ingrid & Adrien
Credit: Excerpt from “Traditional harvest of Burzyan honey | The Master of Bees (Russia)” by wocomoWILDLIFE, used with thanks. Watch the full documentary here: youtube.com/watch?v=JeL6LQcHh_A
