More Scrapings from the Surface of Life in 2023 . . .

September 17, 2023

I’m spending more time on caring bridge than here right now (two posts there, so far, today). And since son Colin’s healing journey plumbs the depths of us all, it’s much more interesting than the four memes I share here. But what the hell, here goes!

P.S. It may be that “covid” will prove to be THE Great Awakener, as contradictions continue to spill over and spread, muddying the waters of even those whose masks, and distancing, and boosters, and slavish compliance aim to keep them forever “pure.”

Oh, and one more . . .

 

What is YOUR “Identity”?

September 16, 2023

Note: My son Colin’s ongoing medical/mental/emotional/spiritual struggle again tends to preoccupy me. Join caring bridge if you wish to receive daily updates, one of which I just did, with the title: “Yesterday was my worst day in the last two weeks.”

Colin’s journey plumbs the depths of us all.

Now, for the superficial . . .

What is my “identity”? Am I a “white woman”? An “old woman”? A mother?” A “Phd”? An “astrologer?” A “recovering Catholic?” A “permaculturist”? A “community builder”? A “writer”? On and on. None of these labels fit. Nothing fits this or any squirming human whose soul cries out for full expression, mediated, while embodied on this earth, through roles, identities, ways others “see” me; ways they think I get “validation.”

Huh? Nope. Forget it.

I am a sovereign soul, at one with all.

When we “identify” with the body, or the learned personality in any way, we are liable to get suckered into terminally divisive identity politics, especially these days, when idiotic superficiality rules.