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Why Do I Write This Blog???

The easiest (and probably the most honest) answer to that question is: I don't know. It all started in the summer of 2005, when I went to Crawford, Texas ( a.k.a. the home of the prez's ranch, a.k.a. the home of Camp Casey) to support Cindy Sheehan. I wanted the world to know that, contrary to what one could read in the mainstream media, the peace movement was alive and well and large numbers of Americans did not support the war in Iraq. I wanted people to know that thousands of Americans were willing to travel to Texas and tolerate the heat, humidity, and bugs in order to support a grieving mother whose new purpose was to shine a light on the lies that led to the war and to bring home our troops so that no other mother would have to know the pain that she felt.

Over time, this blog has become more of an exploration of who I am, my spirituality, and how life works. I love life's complexities, exploring the shades of gray. I want to, as Rainier Maria Rilke said,

"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."

Maybe my blog is just one big question about what is needed in order for people to take the time to love and cherish each other and our earth. Maybe someday, I will "live along some distant day into the answer."

In the meantime, thank you for joining me on my journey. I welcome you to share yours with me

 

Sunday, January 21, 2007

Owl Meditations


For some reason, I can't write right now.

Snow has fallen five weeks in a row. We haven't fully recovered from the first snow that came before Christmas. I need the warm sun on my body. It seems that the earth has changed its tilt, and I am now living in Barrow, Alaska or some other frosty, northern place.

I want to burrow in and come out in the spring.

Soon, though, it will be time to start looking for owl nests. Most years, we find one and watch it until all the babies have flown off - sometime in May. Watching one of the parents sit on the nest is a meditation. Such stillness and patience.

I painted this owl in 2001, when I was in the midst of learning to paint for the first time (haven't painted anything for years now). I had just come back from a hike on a foggy day and seen an owl sitting on a cottonwood branch not far from my head. Owl and human just stood and watched each other for awhile. Owl outlasted human.

Writing this, I am reminded of an experience that I had during my last vision quest.

Aaahhh... writing about owls

then remembering my vision quest in the desert...

I'm starting to warm up.

posted by Carol at 7:08 PM

2 Comments:

Blogger otowi said...

Beautiful painting!
But I'm enjoying the snow - we've been overdue for many years.

9:26 PM  
Blogger Carol said...

Thanks!

And you are right. We do need the snow. It is beautiful, and the spring flowers will probably be amazing because of it.

I have some physical stuff going on that is preventing me from getting out and snowshoeing, so I am not able to have fun in the snow right now. I saw that you were out having fun in it!

8:24 AM  

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