Gathered Gold: “I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.”

Apr 22 (edited) • Gathered Gold

Small Joys, Big Medicine

My Oracle moon card today was "celebrate", which felt very fitting for this week.

I’ve been thinking a lot about how celebration is so often saved for the biggest moments, when really some of the things most worth celebrating are much more ordinary than that.

Coming back to the page. feeling the sun on your skin. . Noticing something beautiful. Making time for yourself again. Keeping going when nobody else can really see the effort it took.

Those things matter.

I think we can be so quick to move on, or brush past the very things that are helping us, just because they look small from the outside. But small joys can hold so much.

This line came to mind today too:

“I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.”— Sara Teasdale

I really love that.

This week, I’d love to know what one small thing you’re celebrating in yourself or your life.

The Philosopher

I saw him sitting in his door,

Trembling as old men do;

His house was old, his barn was old,

And yet his eyes seemed new.

His eyes had seen three times my years

And kept a twinkle still,

Though they had looked at birth and death