Beltane and the Moon of Sorrow<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Monday gratefuls: Old friends. Ancient friends. The Sky. Roads and their romance. Saudi Arabia. Singapore. San Francisco. The Rocky Mountains. The Clan. Newspapers. Headlines. Journalists. Freedom of the Press. Freedom of Assembly. Freedom. Both from and for. July 4. Seoah’s birthday. Lululemon. Seoah’s favorite store. The fans here in the loft. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Spent most of yesterday working on my presentation for the kabbalah class. Wednesday morning. Hard time. I knew what I wanted to say, but I couldn’t find a way in to it. Several false starts. One with double spading forks. One with the dark world I entered after Mom’s death. One with Becoming Native to This Place. Couldn’t get purchase. Kept slipping off with interesting but beside the point narratives. Decided to go right at it. No metaphors. No build up. No explanation. Claims. How I see the world. This is the first draft. It won’t change a lot. Some though. I’ll post the second draft<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Grammar of\nHoliness<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All right.\nThis Land is holy Land. That Land is holy Land. All Land is holy Land. The\nworld Ocean is a holy Ocean in a vessel made of continents of holy Land. The\nAtmosphere is holy. All of it, not just the oxygen we need to breathe, all of\nit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We spin and\ndash around the holy Sun, pushing our way further and further away from the\nholy Milky Way, traveling though holy Space. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We came from\nthis holy World, are made of this holy World, and return to It the very\nelements It loaned us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We are of\nthis wide, large, Universe. And our World will return to It the elements loaned\nto it at the beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This then is\nIsrael. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I put\nmy hands in the Soil, the living Land that sustains us, I touch the holy. The\nsacred gets under my fingernails. When I drink water from the aquifer on Shadow\nMountain, I bring holiness into my body, my sacred body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That Tomato\nis a holy Tomato. That Cow is a sacred Cow. The Moose a sacred Moose. The sacred\nElk Bucks who jumped our fence, ate holy Dandelions and holy Aspen leaves, and\nlounged among the holy Lodgepole Pines. Angels. Messengers of the holy\nMountains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Holiness means\na necessary, unique part of the whole. Sacred means the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The One\nspans this holy Reality, is this sacred Reality, contains that Land and this\nLand, that Ocean, this Atmosphere, this World, that Galaxy. Whenever we move\nthrough the Atmosphere, on the Land, or on the Ocean, we are on pilgrimage to a\nholy place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The same for\nthe Blue Whale, the Krill, the Pine Marten, the Mosquito, the Mountain Lion,\nand the Mule Deer. The same for the Brook Trout, the Staghorn Beetle, or the\npollen of the Ponderosa Pine. All on pilgrimage to a holy place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My faith is\nthis simple. It has neither God nor Bible, neither Savior nor Torah though it\ncan be found through them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What is faith? Confidence. Acknowledgment. Attention. Focus. Seeing what you are looking at. Touching what is in front of you. Hearing the sacred music of the Land, the Sky, the Waters. Smelling the odor of sanctity in a flower bed or a landfill. Tasting the food that sustains you. And knowing you belong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Make your\npuja. Offer yourself. Offer your life. Light incense. Daven. Bow your head.\nThrow your hands above your head. Shout hallelujah. Prostrate yourself on the holy\nLand. Say yes. Say no. Dance, twirl, leap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
May as well.\nThis holy World\u2019s for you and you are for this holy World.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Beltane and the Moon of Sorrow Monday gratefuls: Old friends. Ancient friends. The Sky. Roads and their romance. Saudi Arabia. Singapore. San Francisco. The Rocky Mountains. The Clan. Newspapers. Headlines. Journalists. Freedom of the Press. Freedom of Assembly. Freedom. Both from and for. July 4. Seoah’s birthday. Lululemon. Seoah’s favorite store. The fans here in … Continue reading Dance, Twirl, Leap<\/span>