memoir
transformational arts
Nourishing an interest in knowing more about shamanism, I recently read Martin Prechtel’s Secrets of the Talking Jaguar and feasted on the beauty and spiritual abundance of his writings about the Maya among whom he lived.
In college biology, I looked at the stages of mitosis and understood the nature of separation: it’s necessary to get on with progress. It was exciting to me to watch as the mitochondria gathered together in the middle of the cell, then migrated to the far ends, and when the mass had been achieved, the cell split.
In the late 70's Lee and I bought our house - the one we're still living in, and one of the first things we did was to dig holes in our ground. What freedom! We could dig holes anywhere we liked and no one would tell us not to.
In 1981 I had what Jungians call a Big Dream that foretold a period of blossoming.
I was walking somewhere in a neighborhood.
All of a sudden there was an atmospheric blip the light changed in the sky, and we all knew that the time of the New Age had come, that the Great Being for whom we had been waiting had arrived, and we were all ready to shift into gear. We formed circles and danced in the streets, hugging and kissing: The Time was here!The sanctuary of my blood, harboring the ancient lineage of my tribe and my species.
The sanctuary of my hidden thoughts, burrowed far beneath pine needles so old they are barely more than the earth eating the roots of the trees.
The sanctuary of friendship.
The sanctuary of home.
Of the sacred.
Dr. Karl Pillemer is looking for wisdom – yours, if you’re over age 60. On a page of the website, he’s inviting you to share what you’ve learned. Karl directs Cornell University’s 's Institute for Translational Research on Aging.
Seldom one to refuse an invitation to share my ideas – much less my wisdom! … I responded. The collection of words that fell through my fingers onto my keyboard reminded me of all the reasons I am grateful for my life and look forward to learning more in the coming years. It might not be what anyone would define as wisdom, but this is a collection of what I’ve learned so far.
