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Ann Kreilkamp / Ph.D. 83

Astrologer, published author, conference presenter, world traveler, founder & editor of Crone Chronicles: A Journal of Conscious Aging (1989-2001) , and founding visionary of Green Acres Permaculture Village (2010 to present).

Recent Posts

Puppy Shadow’s “shadow” shines bright

June 16, 2024

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(Note, see posts June 4, 5, 6, and 7).

On my walk early this morning I ran into two people with dogs, one after another. Impulsively, I stopped them both, to ask about their dogs. Two wonderfully heartfelt conversations resulted. Makes me realize that I don’t even need a dog with me to make an instant personal connection with a stranger. All I have to do is stop him or her, blurt out “I just lost my dog,” and instantly, their faces fall, they nearly double over in shared pain.

WOW. There’s good reason why GOD is DOG, spelled backwards.

Where would we be, as a human race, without our beloved canine companions who not only love and guard us, but enable us to share our vulnerable feelings with other humans, without embarrassment or apology.

It’s just there, that shared pain.

A pain that courses through the entire world, especially now, with three war fronts, all threatening to detonate the entire planet.

 

Puppy Shadow, some years ago, on the IU campus close to where I was walking today.

 

Two Types of People in This World . . .

June 15, 2024

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Not true.

But as both a recovering Catholic (childhood) and recovering Democrat (adult life until 2017) I did laugh out loud, chai tea spittering noisily from my 81-year-old mouth.

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”And you? My teacher looked up, his left eyebrow arched, pencil poised. 'I want to do a paper on the concept of time.’” I mumbled, timidly. 'Time?' He sniffed. “I wouldn’t touch the subject. Too difficult.” — AK, 1967
“The longer we live, the larger, the richer the background against which all future experiences take place, and the more complex and subtle our understanding of our own past.” — AK, 1986, A Soul’s Journey
“To me, the most interesting question about human memory is why only certain events, rather than others, carry a charge. Where does the charge come from?” — AK, 1986, A Soul’s Journey
“At a party, many decades ago, a man whom I had just met burst out, in a tone of wonder: ‘You are the first continuously splitting schizophrenic I’ve ever met!’ I bowed low and responded, ‘Thank you!’”
”And you? My teacher looked up, his left eyebrow arched, pencil poised. 'I want to do a paper on the concept of time.’” I mumbled, timidly. 'Time?' He sniffed. “I wouldn’t touch the subject. Too difficult.” — AK, 1967
Ann Kreilkamp

Ann Kreilkamp

Ph.D. 83

Astrologer, published author, conference presenter, world traveler, founder & editor of Crone Chronicles: A Journal of Conscious Aging (1989-2001) , and founding visionary of Green Acres Permaculture Village (2010 to present).