The cicadas have questions

Hello friend,

The cicadas are here.

Have you heard? There are billions of Brood X cicadas

that have emerged after SEVENTEEN years in the ground.

They hum/buzz/sing and sound like glitter.

And I've been puzzling over the message they bring.

There are some obvious messages, like:

You Only Live Once 

There's Strength In Numbers

Some Things Are Worth The Wait

But for me, this year,

the message is wrapped in the cicadas' dormancy.

It is marvelous to me that these creatures 

have been here all along:

almost two decades of slowly growing

feeding on root sap

readying for emergence.

The message for me, then, is a question. 

What is here, alive and waiting,

deep within me, myself?

What's an aspect of me -

someone I've been

someone I AM -

that I haven't expressed in a long while?

*

Join me.

Think back a decade or two or four. 

Who were you, 

that deep down, you still are?

What's an aspect of your identity

that's primed for re-emergence?

What's a part of you 

a way you have been and would like to be again

that's been feeding, resting, quiet, forgotten, 

but now is ready to come out to glitter and hum?

And

how can you honor and support that part of you? 

Me,

I bought a piano.

Carpe Vitam!

love,

Natalie