Imbolc – the threshold between winter and spring; in the Northern Hemisphere the light is with us for longer each day, the new shoots of growth emerging after winters rest of dormancy.  I notice within myself that each day I naturally wake a little earlier, I am feeling a gradual upsurge in my own energy, as if I too am waking after winter’s slumber.

Today I was pruning the roses … a task that requires attention and focus – what to cut, where to cut, how to cut, how not to get scratched and ripped by the thorns.  It is a task that requires me to be present, consciously thinking about what I am doing…

I will admit I was flumouxed when orginally asked this question.  But you were not the only to ask, so I realised this was a concept that needs explaining, and I took the question as an invitation to more deeply connect with, and explore, my own understanding of what is joy…