Glacial Calving

I’m writing from the great state of Alaska.

Yesterday, my son and I saw several massive glaciers, glacial waterfalls, and a phenomenon called glacial calving.

🏔️Glacial calving is the process where huge chunks of ice break off from a glacier.

It’s a haunting phrase - glacial caving. 

Honestly? I feel like I have to break from old parts of me all the time.

I'm reminded of that now, on a trip with my seventeen-year-old son.

I catch myself grasping for the closeness we had when he was younger.  

I imagine that his distance connotes something deeper about my own inadequacy.

But really, it’s just an evolutionary process of separation. 💙

It's a normal occurrence.

♽Just as calving is a natural stage in a glacier’s life, we too “calve” away parts of ourselves in cycles. 

Old beliefs, stories, patterns. 

Some fall away quietly, others with a crash.

It’s a natural process, if often a dramatic one.

Some calving creates ripples, some creates waves.

One glacier calving we were told, created a 🌊 tsunami!

Metaphor helps when we’re facing change, I think. 

Because change so often feels like what a glacial calving looks like—like a sudden dropping off.

But with each calving, a new edge is revealed.

It becomes a perch for a 🐥 fledgeling. 

Edges can feel scary. 

But they’re also the places where we glimpse what’s possible.

♽What's the part you sense has reached the end of it's life cycle?

🌊What impact will letting go have on waters of your life?

🌅What new terrain will it make visible?

Let's find out together!❤️