Lessons from a scallop

(Nimue)

You don’t get to choose what comes in, but you do get to filter. What you let go of and what you retain is up to you.

There is abundance. There’s always a lot coming in. Everything you need is out there, moving towards you.

(I pause to note that this is a different issue for shellfish because they aren’t constantly experiencing other shellfish denying them access to what they need. But, the truth is there, that as a species we have all the resources we could possibly need. What we don’t have is any inclination to share them fairly.)

When all you do is absorb and release, how can you not love everything? All there is to life is love, and the experience of being.

It was a curious set of experiences, some on a beach, some in the middle of the night. I don’t eat a great deal of meat usually – just enough to protect me from becoming anaemic, which has been an issue for me in the past. I had sat with shellfish, then later eaten a scallop, and afterwards, I was very aware of it, as a presence. This does not normally happen to me around food, but it’s also not the first time I’ve ingested something and then found it wanted to talk to me.

We take in energy all the time from our food, and that energy shapes us and changes us in all kinds of ways. There are old adages about ‘you are what you eat’ and apparently I am a bit more scallop than I was, and it’s been a strangely forgiving experience.