Spring Bee Hiving Moon
On the last afternoon of the Intensive Journal Workshop we had an exercise focused on what our life is reaching for. In the first morning we had defined the current period of our life: in my case the time after Kate’s retirement. By the last afternoon we had worked ourselves into the next period of our lives. Since we were newly in this next period, this exercise asked us to feel, below the conscious level, where our lives wanted to go.
Here is my sense of what my life is reaching for in this next period:
1. a bountiful, sustainable nutrient dense harvest of fruit and vegetables.
2. a way to use the Great Wheel website to advance the Great Work through literature, science and political activism.
3. a third phase (third lifetime) writing portfolio with short story writing credits as a floor for selling novels.
4. a schedule for translating and commenting on at least several books of the Metamorphoses
5. still more of a stable, wonderful marriage, regular visits and communication with kids and grandkids and friends.
6. more mutual travel opportunities with Kate.
As I work in the inner movement of my life, I can feel a quieting, a confidence that who I am and what I do is enough-no matter the outcomes. This feeling has grown stronger since Kate retired and continues to strengthen with time.
In my third lifetime I will be calm, steady, productive.
