🌿Enlightened Walks — Week 1 - Friday 21st November 2025🥾

Friday 21st November 2025

Theme: Sowing Seeds • Winter Beginnings • Quiet Growth 🌱❄️🍁🍂🥾

❄️ Winter, Trust & Quiet Becoming

There’s so much to blog about today, and it all began with a simple walk.

Winter reminds us that we must sync with nature and trust.

We need to let go of old beliefs and things that no longer serve us, so new things can seed and grow.

Winter isn’t the end we think it is.

Winter is the beginning.

It’s a time for going inwards, yes, but also for gently and quietly planning and sowing seeds for what’s coming next.

Like the red berries I found today…

Yes, we may be in the icy depths of November, but the trees are already providing for the birds, tiny seeds of next spring held in bright berries. Even now, nature is preparing for the future.

🍃 Ivy — The Quiet Provider

I love ivy, the gift that keeps on giving.

It feeds the birds and bees all year round and gives them shelter through every season.

Even in the coldest months, it continues to offer.

A reminder that resilience doesn’t always shout, sometimes it quietly climbs, holds on, and supports life around it.

Winter might look bare, but life is still here, still giving, still preparing.

🍄‍🟫 Even in Death, There Is New Life 🍄

And then, the fungi.

What winter really teaches us is that death is just part of the cycle.

It’s not an ending but the very beginning of something new.

We let go, break down, release…

…so something else can root, feed, grow.

The forest floor never wastes anything.

Everything becomes nourishment.

Like this mushroom rising through the fallen leaves, a small, beautiful reminder that:

• new beginnings live inside endings

• decay becomes food for future growth

• stillness is never the end of the story

Sometimes we think nothing is happening.

But nature shows us that growth often begins in the dark.

🪾Final Reflection

Winter isn’t the barren, empty season we assume it is.

It’s full of quiet potential, subtle, hidden, waiting.

Today reminded me:

If we slow down, look closely, and become still…

we realise that even in the depths of winter, life is preparing for spring.