I dreamed about a warm embrace last night and I savored it.
My Dad called me on Facetime for the first time. There was something about that moment that made my heart break. His willingness to try something new, his fascination with the technology, our pulling together as the pandemic pulls us apart, his aging in this time and what it must be like to already feel some diminishing of body and scope of day to day life - and now this. Now this.
There was a need for gentleness and connection yesterday with work folks - the calls all took a turn from the compulsion to get out ahead of the unknown, to chatting with deeper breaths- about day to day things, to laughter and wondering together right on top of all of the fear.
And from my Wisdom Course work, someone offered this post.
Message from the Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers
http://www.grandmotherscouncil.org/
"As you move through these changing times... be easy on yourself and be easy on one another. You are at the beginning of something new. You are learning a new way of being. You will find that you are working less in the yang modes that you are used to.
You will stop working so hard at getting from point A to point B the way you have in the past, but instead, will spend more time experiencing yourself in the whole, and your place in it.
Instead of traveling to a goal out there, you will voyage deeper into yourself. Your mother's grandmother knew how to do this. Your ancestors from long ago knew how to do this. They knew the power of the feminine principle... and because you carry their DNA in your body, this wisdom and this way of being is within you.
Call on it. Call it up. Invite your ancestors in. As the yang based habits and the decaying institutions on our planet begin to crumble, look up. A breeze is stirring. Feel the sun on your wings."
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