Journal October 5 2009 Monday

Gratitude And Ponderings
1- i stayed up all nite
and slept til almost noon
i like it! i love it!
i want some more of it
2- we could not go to Victoria
Texas to visit Steve's folks
because Grand Dad is having
8 teeth pulled
3- i was up and out the door
to knitting class with Maxine
stopping for groceries
to make lima bean salad
and cole slaw like they
make @ Gnat's Landing
on St. Simon's Island
and to have fixins to
make pimento chees
/ham sandwiches
for when Ann and Bonnie
come visit Thursday
(only Bonnie can't come now)
then on to visit Mama
she was a whiney-babe
today
picked up Nachos
went to Love and Light
Ladies @ Janie's
4- Here's some notes i took
when i listened to
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
CDs about CREATIVE FIRE
in the jeep today
-in every creation
/in everything manifest
there is vibrancy
then decline
followed by restoration
-to understand it
as deeply as possible
and be changed by it
-creative life
is a spiritual practice
not at a distance
but to live right in the soup
right in the pot of oil
right in the dark woods
right in the realm of
Demeter who is Light
Persephone who is Descent
Hades who is Death
Balbo who is the quickening of new life
even Zeus must submit
to the Grand Round
all of these players
are aspects of my psyche
all of them drive
the creative life
down into the dark
lift it back up
in tandem
lift it back up
into the light
and into rebirth again
-it is a spiritual practce
to live the creative center
right in our everyday lives
5- what joy
i've found
in this day!