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from Saturday's Gathering at the Well   my surprising self with the  intensity of rage at the meeting of  Netanyahu and Trump….Wendy,  a Jungian Therapist gives me the the opening to the Shadow Self        and i remember sitting on my Dearest and Best  friend's bed,  Marjorie Burke Price,   Marge,  a bowl of popcorn,   we read  the Visions Seminar and draw and paint and now,  again,  Wendy gives it years later      and last night my dreams.   my dreams.    and today again,  the Little Sleep this morning,,,,,the dream world clearly reaches into the day world      this has never happened before     

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  1. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    “intensity of rage…” lately, I struggle to recognize myself when I get up in the early morning hours. I fidget, dance to music at 4 am with headphones so as not to bother my husband, read from trusted sources on the internet, step outside to greet the day, regardless of the time of day but it does not stifle the rising anger…anger at the country we are living in but more than that, if I go down deep, anger at myself for not doing more like I used to do. Yes, I stand and face but I do so these days as an old woman, quietly, calling her congressional reps, but this is preaching to the choir. Where is the fire to call the other side and speak my mind?
    See the vision that I have of myself is of a strong woman; a woman who can speak clearly, who can write clearly, who is not afraid to go to the wall but these last four weeks, have brought me to my knees.
    This weekend, I turned to cloth as thoughts of Gaza were in the forefront of my mind. Land is so precious, homeland, even more so. No one has the right to take people away from their land. The cloth I pinned, dyed with local windfall, spoke to me of this place I live in, this desert land of New Mexico, It also spoke to me of Gaza and the Palestinian people- I realized that this cloth is a prayer for them..
    I do not know much about the Shadow Self but I think of shadows, of hidden images and while making a prayer cloth is what I can do, maybe the only thing I can do, somewhere in the shadows is the warrior woman I used to be…is she still within me?

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  2. maria Avatar
    maria

    Grace and Marti , have read those words … the dreams and the way to express…
    what is the shadow side of our self ( i will think about ithis )

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  3. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    tomorrow i get batteries, can answer this. In meantime, is in my heart

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