What a lovely surprise, Rachel! Another voice from that first semester of college. So glad you dropped by to say hello, and that you enjoyed the piece.
Thank you so much, Kuschie! What a ride, these twenty years, eh? It's such a process, taking off the blinders, and it makes me so happy for each one who sees the love. Hugs & kisses to you too!
Oh this was glorious. Thank you! I remember this moment when I realized that love was the fundamental nature of the universe... I was exhausted and teary-eyed and practically hysterical with sleep deprivation, but holding my newborn son. And I was thinking of all those generation of (mostly) mothers who had done this same thing. And my mind. was. blown. That we are all this long line of love. Love that makes absolutely no rational sense whatsoever. It's the thing that keeps the electrons spinning around the nucleus, the planets around the sun. It still makes me catch my breath when I think about it.
The view is dazzling, isn’t it?! Especially because it often comes as a shock because we’ve been schooled in such a different worldview. And now people think of this view, rather apologetically, as belonging to mystics. No, I think it’s the commonsense view. And the one we need now in order to turn ourselves around. So many Indigenous peoples just consider it obvious! Thanks for connecting.
This is such a beautifully told story, it touches me deeply. The need to change worldview is often written about cerebrally, including by me! I love your organic flow here between personal experience and world story, holding love at the heart of all. Thank you 🙏
Thanks for letting us know that you connect, Sally! I came of age with the feminist mantra "the personal is political," so I think superimposing the immediate personal story on the bigger social story goes deep for me, and I find myself doing it continually. Am always using one story as a lens on the other. And there is such power in connecting from the heart! That is a big learning from my spiritual practice. It's in the heart where the change happens, and story helps to open those doors of the heart. When I write, I try to start with story and write from the tender heart.
Such beautiful writing guidance Priscilla, very welcome as I start writing here on Substack, drawn here by its warmth and storytelling. I love ‘write from the tender heart’ I too came of age with the ‘personal is political’ mantra, fine guidance from my feminist elders. So interesting to reflect on how this has evolved over a life time personal, political and ecological changes. So inviting to think of telling these stories with heart. Thank you
Hi Priscilla! Beautiful and meaningful!!! I had been calling my search and discoveries "How Things REALLY Work" but I love your far more descriptive phrase -- "Healing Our Worldview". Love your love story too.
Glad you enjoy it, Laree! The phrase just came to me recently—after all these years of trying to find words for what I write about. Sometimes it just takes a while, I guess. And yes, I wanted to do the love story justice, because that's how love comes to us—free and freeing, unloosing things inside us. Thanks for your comment.
Glad to find you here, after many years! And to hear your joy!
What a lovely surprise, Rachel! Another voice from that first semester of college. So glad you dropped by to say hello, and that you enjoyed the piece.
Twenty years!! Mazel tov! Lovely piece--thanks for sharing it with. Yep, love is all there is, if we take off our blinders.
XOXO
Thank you so much, Kuschie! What a ride, these twenty years, eh? It's such a process, taking off the blinders, and it makes me so happy for each one who sees the love. Hugs & kisses to you too!
Oh this was glorious. Thank you! I remember this moment when I realized that love was the fundamental nature of the universe... I was exhausted and teary-eyed and practically hysterical with sleep deprivation, but holding my newborn son. And I was thinking of all those generation of (mostly) mothers who had done this same thing. And my mind. was. blown. That we are all this long line of love. Love that makes absolutely no rational sense whatsoever. It's the thing that keeps the electrons spinning around the nucleus, the planets around the sun. It still makes me catch my breath when I think about it.
The view is dazzling, isn’t it?! Especially because it often comes as a shock because we’ve been schooled in such a different worldview. And now people think of this view, rather apologetically, as belonging to mystics. No, I think it’s the commonsense view. And the one we need now in order to turn ourselves around. So many Indigenous peoples just consider it obvious! Thanks for connecting.
I LOVE this! ❤️ And you say it so beautifully.
Thanks, Rosana! ❤️ Glad you connected with it.
This is such a beautifully told story, it touches me deeply. The need to change worldview is often written about cerebrally, including by me! I love your organic flow here between personal experience and world story, holding love at the heart of all. Thank you 🙏
Thanks for letting us know that you connect, Sally! I came of age with the feminist mantra "the personal is political," so I think superimposing the immediate personal story on the bigger social story goes deep for me, and I find myself doing it continually. Am always using one story as a lens on the other. And there is such power in connecting from the heart! That is a big learning from my spiritual practice. It's in the heart where the change happens, and story helps to open those doors of the heart. When I write, I try to start with story and write from the tender heart.
Such beautiful writing guidance Priscilla, very welcome as I start writing here on Substack, drawn here by its warmth and storytelling. I love ‘write from the tender heart’ I too came of age with the ‘personal is political’ mantra, fine guidance from my feminist elders. So interesting to reflect on how this has evolved over a life time personal, political and ecological changes. So inviting to think of telling these stories with heart. Thank you
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"LIfe opened up again, as life does." Thank you for that beautiful reminder.
It's a wonder, isn't it, Gail? You know a few things about the closing and the opening too. <3
Hi Priscilla! Beautiful and meaningful!!! I had been calling my search and discoveries "How Things REALLY Work" but I love your far more descriptive phrase -- "Healing Our Worldview". Love your love story too.
Glad you enjoy it, Laree! The phrase just came to me recently—after all these years of trying to find words for what I write about. Sometimes it just takes a while, I guess. And yes, I wanted to do the love story justice, because that's how love comes to us—free and freeing, unloosing things inside us. Thanks for your comment.