the waters

Now we see a return to La Nina. With frenetic energy and power, she has crashed through the lives of many thousands of people and restamped her mark on the landscape. The old, clogged waterways have been flushed and with it, many of our long held beliefs and understandings about the water we thought we had controlled. We have been surprised and shocked at her unyeilding power. We have wondered where it has all come from and we have blamed others for not being able to hold back trhe tides.

But who can hold back the waters?

Water is symbolic of emotion. If we have to ask oursleves what is the earth is emotional about, then we really don't understand anything about the planet we stand on. But what if we ask oursleves what we have to be so emotional about?

The waters have come as they should during a wet season. This is the time of unforgiving thunderstorms, unbridled energy and chaotic lives. Emotions come cascading down the mountain demanding to be noticed, screaming to be addressed. Perhpas if we revert to being the child for a moment, we can allow our emotions the freedom to spill out and tumble over the waterfall..... then as the adult, we swim through the pool and look closely at each eddy and current to dtermine what message is there for us.

Happy swimming

Wivenhoe Dam spillway 2011

the child

In our stuggling and surviving to grow, to take action, to do, we have forgotten how simply to be. With awe and wonder, the child interacts wiht the world. With trust and without any negative expectations, it discovers its current reality and emits its pure responses back out into its world, a world so filled with mystery and possibility, a wide and unlimited world. (ref: Rstall Orr 1998:166)

The magical child within us is still free....

hello again

unravelling

unravel

The process of undoing twisted or knotted threads can be quite shocking. Long held beliefs, understandings and emotions can suddenly be undone and left disconnected. Sealed boxes of experiences and memories are flung open, the contents pulled out and the worn fingers of time begin to pull them apart. What you are left with are some very weird dreams, spontaneous laughing and a lot more thinking and processing to do. These opened boxes need to stored away into a new place and that is not always easy.

deja vu

this is a great example of how science has tried to 'explain' past knowledge and experience. Here are the two sides of the coin:

• the experience of feeling sure that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation previously (an individual feels as though an event has already happened or has happened in the recent past), although the exact circumstances of the previous encounter are uncertain. The term was coined by a French psychic researcher, Émile Boirac (1851–1917) in his book L'Avenir des sciences psychiques ("The Future of Psychic Sciences"), which expanded upon an essay he wrote while an undergraduate. The experience of déjà vu is usually accompanied by a compelling sense of familiarity, and also a sense of "eeriness," "strangeness," "weirdness," or what Sigmund Freud calls "the uncanny." The "previous" experience is most frequently attributed to a dream, although in some cases there is a firm sense that the experience has genuinely happened in the past. The experience of déjà vu seems to be quite common among adults and children alike.

And then there is:

• Scientifically speaking, the most likely explanation of déjà vu is not that it is an act of "precognition" or "prophecy," but rather that it is an anomaly of memory, giving the impression that an experience is "being recalled." and.... encountering something which evokes the implicit associations of an experience or sensation that cannot be remembered may lead to déjà vu.

Hmmm, what science always fails to account for are the 'feelings' associated with deja vu. That absolute innate knowing that something has indeed been experienced before, a person has been met before, something has been said before.......
 

breathe

...the pull is in my muscles...

...the ache is in my bones...

...breathe.... breathe...

...it won't be long now.

community

As a youngster I was hell bent on fixing every problem I discovered... only to be sorely disappointed. Today I am not much different. But since moving to a small community, my focus has narrowed from global to local. I see so much that can be done on a small community level and I can even see some success. It is only since technological advances in communication that we have become so aware (and thus desensitised?) to global events, plights, catastrophes. I think this international awareness has come at the cost of local knowledge and belonging.

Didn't someone smarter than me once say: I am the master of my own kingdom? Well a good leader and a good community ensures that the most marginalised and downtrodden are cared for and acknowledged. I will try to be more aware of my own backyard, frontyard, main street and backstreets......