This is a message I need right now. Also, what an amazing alignment between your mental emotional health and writing and an actual dang volcano! You have stories to tell.
I'm all about connecting the dots. And telling stories. All my theology and philosophy are contained in stories. I do want to tell a long story someday. Am so in awe of people who write novels.
I loved this! And your mention of Costa Rica reminded me of my last summer of high school, when I went to Costa Rica for 10 weeks as an exchange student with AFS and visited Volcan Poas and Volcan Irazu. Standing at the rim of a dormant volcano is an eerie experience. Feels very end-of-the-world-like and desolate, and at the same time, incredible and beautiful and so far beyond my understanding. I suppose that’s not a bad description of the world today. Walking outside and seeing the sun rise, hearing huge flocks of swallows before I can even see them and then watching them navigate the skies as a team sounds incongruent with how I feel about political climate, yet they coexist and I’m right there in the midst of it.
The Toni Morrison quote and photo are wonderful! Thanks and be well.
I haven't been to Poas or Irazu - though Poas much in my awareness, since I was there when it erupted a few years back - a devastating national disaster. Spent a wonderful day at Rincon del la Vieja, including the mud bath. Now THAT was a spiritual experience!
Thank you for this vision of hope. I currently work for a federally funded organization that works with low-income folk. There is a lot of good that is done with these federal funds. And I’m terrified that they might disappear. It is conjecture at the moment, based on spoken threats.
Oh Kerry, I banished the word "terrified" from my vocabulary eight years ago. Our fear feeds the beast. The antidote is action from a place of love. In all sorts of ways, we'll have to find a new path and more local community.
This is a message I need right now. Also, what an amazing alignment between your mental emotional health and writing and an actual dang volcano! You have stories to tell.
I'm all about connecting the dots. And telling stories. All my theology and philosophy are contained in stories. I do want to tell a long story someday. Am so in awe of people who write novels.
I loved this! And your mention of Costa Rica reminded me of my last summer of high school, when I went to Costa Rica for 10 weeks as an exchange student with AFS and visited Volcan Poas and Volcan Irazu. Standing at the rim of a dormant volcano is an eerie experience. Feels very end-of-the-world-like and desolate, and at the same time, incredible and beautiful and so far beyond my understanding. I suppose that’s not a bad description of the world today. Walking outside and seeing the sun rise, hearing huge flocks of swallows before I can even see them and then watching them navigate the skies as a team sounds incongruent with how I feel about political climate, yet they coexist and I’m right there in the midst of it.
The Toni Morrison quote and photo are wonderful! Thanks and be well.
I haven't been to Poas or Irazu - though Poas much in my awareness, since I was there when it erupted a few years back - a devastating national disaster. Spent a wonderful day at Rincon del la Vieja, including the mud bath. Now THAT was a spiritual experience!
Best wishes - Willa
Thank you for this vision of hope. I currently work for a federally funded organization that works with low-income folk. There is a lot of good that is done with these federal funds. And I’m terrified that they might disappear. It is conjecture at the moment, based on spoken threats.
Oh Kerry, I banished the word "terrified" from my vocabulary eight years ago. Our fear feeds the beast. The antidote is action from a place of love. In all sorts of ways, we'll have to find a new path and more local community.