Hi Kathleen ... it was so wonderful to meet you in person at the Third Act event last week. Your humility with respect to your place in the world, and particularly with your writing, is admirable and something for me to emulate.
I must ask ... is the photo in the lower left hand corner, standing on the sand with a fire and a sunrise behind you, is that from Cousins Island on Easter morning?
Oh, Kathleen. I am weeping with gratitude as I finish reading this piece, which is landing as such profound medicine for me today. I just spent a glorious weekend with a beloved friend in North Carolina and felt filled to the brim with inspiration, radiance, love and clarity— a sense of infinite expansion and possibility that only deep friendship and soul-fun can conjure for me. And then returned home to work today and had a heartbreaking session with a client whose electricity has been shut off and whose diabetes medication he now has to bring to a neighbors home to keep refrigerated, just to add to a laundry list of mind-boggling problems he’s navigating alone. And even after such an expansive weekend, as I shift back into my clinical role, I feel so limited by the tools and perspective I have to support someone in that position. So when I read your reflection on the two-eyed seeing you have found and integrated into your life, I felt such a hunger and resonance to both know and embody a broader, cosmic, ancient way of seeing and understanding our lives, as well as despair that that way of seeing can feel so suddenly inaccessible. I’m in a contraction after expansion, is also what it comes down to, and reading your piece inspired, reassured, and rerouted me. And makes me feel confident that my decision to leave work early and go home to lie in the sun and listen to birds is the best way I could spend the rest of the day. Thank you for your curiosity, your wisdom, your learnings and teachings. I cannot wait to visit your garden.
Marvelous! So glad you included the Easter sunrise in your wonder photos. The Swimme book arrived in my mail yesterday — synchronicity! Their film is beautiful and inspired my ordering the book, summer reading. The quote points to what must change: the human heart. No insights or understandings will change the direction of human destruction unless our hearts warm to the love and interconnectedness that is essential, that builds communities like the one you have built with your Code Red musings. I am so grateful for you! ❤️
Hi again Kathleen ... I had to ask because YES, we have lived on Cousins Island for almost 30 years, and the beach is just a mile away. And I built the fire! But pros like Judith and Bill Gregory do all the hard work ... I'm just a fortunate beneficiary of being along for the ride!
In the words of Chief Arvol Looking Horse, 19th Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe and Bundle: " Each of us is put here in this time and place to decide the future of humankind. Did you think you were put here for something less? "
You'll be missed, Kathleen, but like a returning tide you'll be welcomed back in the fall. Enjoy the soil, and remember there are universes in every handful. Be well, and thank you for all you do.
Hi Kathleen ... it was so wonderful to meet you in person at the Third Act event last week. Your humility with respect to your place in the world, and particularly with your writing, is admirable and something for me to emulate.
I must ask ... is the photo in the lower left hand corner, standing on the sand with a fire and a sunrise behind you, is that from Cousins Island on Easter morning?
Oh, Kathleen. I am weeping with gratitude as I finish reading this piece, which is landing as such profound medicine for me today. I just spent a glorious weekend with a beloved friend in North Carolina and felt filled to the brim with inspiration, radiance, love and clarity— a sense of infinite expansion and possibility that only deep friendship and soul-fun can conjure for me. And then returned home to work today and had a heartbreaking session with a client whose electricity has been shut off and whose diabetes medication he now has to bring to a neighbors home to keep refrigerated, just to add to a laundry list of mind-boggling problems he’s navigating alone. And even after such an expansive weekend, as I shift back into my clinical role, I feel so limited by the tools and perspective I have to support someone in that position. So when I read your reflection on the two-eyed seeing you have found and integrated into your life, I felt such a hunger and resonance to both know and embody a broader, cosmic, ancient way of seeing and understanding our lives, as well as despair that that way of seeing can feel so suddenly inaccessible. I’m in a contraction after expansion, is also what it comes down to, and reading your piece inspired, reassured, and rerouted me. And makes me feel confident that my decision to leave work early and go home to lie in the sun and listen to birds is the best way I could spend the rest of the day. Thank you for your curiosity, your wisdom, your learnings and teachings. I cannot wait to visit your garden.
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It’s great to be on this journey with you.
Marvelous! So glad you included the Easter sunrise in your wonder photos. The Swimme book arrived in my mail yesterday — synchronicity! Their film is beautiful and inspired my ordering the book, summer reading. The quote points to what must change: the human heart. No insights or understandings will change the direction of human destruction unless our hearts warm to the love and interconnectedness that is essential, that builds communities like the one you have built with your Code Red musings. I am so grateful for you! ❤️
I will miss you and Code Red. I look forward to it every Sunday Morning.
I, too, am now awed by the life that is sprouting all around us.
Enjoy this world!
Have a wonderful summer, K.
I'll miss you K. Be well.
Hi again Kathleen ... I had to ask because YES, we have lived on Cousins Island for almost 30 years, and the beach is just a mile away. And I built the fire! But pros like Judith and Bill Gregory do all the hard work ... I'm just a fortunate beneficiary of being along for the ride!
In the words of Chief Arvol Looking Horse, 19th Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe and Bundle: " Each of us is put here in this time and place to decide the future of humankind. Did you think you were put here for something less? "
You'll be missed, Kathleen, but like a returning tide you'll be welcomed back in the fall. Enjoy the soil, and remember there are universes in every handful. Be well, and thank you for all you do.