Vanic Value 1: Place
Place
I value this place I occupy in the world. I value the here, the now. I feel no need to go somewhere else to connect with Nature (all that is), my Lady and Lord and all of my kith and kin. Here is just fine. Now is fine too. All is present to me right here in this place, right now. I am part of all of Nature right here, right now. I join with Freyja and Freyr here and now. I am connected with all of my kith and kin here and now. All is well in this place, here and now.
If I have any need it is to sink my energetic roots deeper into Mother Earth, down into her soil, underground streams and fiery core, and spread my limbs into her winds and breathe her own breath into my lungs. If I have a need it is to join in intimate union with Freyja and Freyr even more vividly than I already do. If I have a need it is to be more present in this place with deep respect for my kith and kin with whom I share this here and now.
Too often I allow my mind to indulge in ruminating in the past, wishing that things I cannot change could be different. Too often I also allow my mind to indulge in flights of fancy in an imagined future. Then I worry. Sometimes I image fictitious crises that I experience in the present as if they were real. They aren’t. They are crises that never actually happen, except in my own thoughts.
When I become aware that I am indulging in ruminations of the past and fictitious future crises, I smile, breathe in and out and sink my energetic roots deep into the ground. I return to this place, this here and now. I return because I value this particular place, this place that I occupy with my kith and kin, Lady and Lord and all of Nature, this here, this now. When I value this place, all is well.