The Furious Spinner

I've been taking that online class with Starhawk I told you about. We were discussing grief over what's happening in our world, and I wanted to share with you what I wrote. You've heard it before, but maybe it's good to hear it again. It was good for me to write it again. A good reminder.

I feel a great deal of grief and despair over what is happening and has happened to the planet. We do things locally, healing and nourishing and nurturing our part of the planet, which is us, our yard, and our community. Not too long ago I asked a friend of mine to give me cooking lessons. I have had a restricted diet for years because of health reasons and I was feeling undernourished and out of touch with myself and my community because I didn't eat the same foods as everyone else. I told her about my sorry over this, and she said she'd been told many times what she could and couldn't eat. She didn't get upset about it. Instead, she'd fling open her cupboards, look at the goodies inside, and figure out what she could do with these new restrictions: She didn't see them as restrictions; she saw them as a creative challenge to nourish and heal herself.

So this is how I am looking at my life now and what's happening with the planet. It's not about deprivation; it's not about guilt (like Starhawk said); it's about how I can be creative with my life to be a great citizen of this planet, to be a healthy cell of the Goddess (or Nature). Yes, so much of how we've been living, at least in the USA, feels easy and comfortable, but so much of it feels lost, empty, and lonely. Wouldn't a new way of living just be grand? So this morning I went out and talked to my garden and oohed and aahed over it as I turned over the soil and imagined the world I wanted, and I began to create it, one seed at a time.

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