SA 12/25 desert time
Dec. 25th, 2002 04:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cthulhia"If, as Herod, we fill our lives with things, and again with things, if we consider ourselves so unimportant that we must fill every moment of our lives with action, when will have time to make the long, slow journey across the desert as did the Magi? Or sit and watch the stars as did the Shepherds? Or brood over the coming of the child as did Mary? For each one of us there is a desert to travel, a star to discover, and a being within ourselves to bring to life."
From a Print by Michael Podesta
She found this print just before starting the two year process of writing Simple Abundance.
I feel like I've spent most of my life brooding and watching from the desert, with no appreciable benefit.
Action is at least distraction. When I stop, I'm still alone. No chosen family, and an afterthought with the family where I started.
If I were back there right now, I would be reading, watching TV, wishing for this bandwidth, wishing my childhood neighbor had called me for his alternate midnight mass last night, wondering if any of my old friends will call or even have time. Christmas is the length of a child's attention span, on Christmas eve. They all go to the other Grandparents' houses today.
There are things I can go to here, but I wish I didn't have to go alone, not with the weather this wretched.
From a Print by Michael Podesta
She found this print just before starting the two year process of writing Simple Abundance.
I feel like I've spent most of my life brooding and watching from the desert, with no appreciable benefit.
Action is at least distraction. When I stop, I'm still alone. No chosen family, and an afterthought with the family where I started.
If I were back there right now, I would be reading, watching TV, wishing for this bandwidth, wishing my childhood neighbor had called me for his alternate midnight mass last night, wondering if any of my old friends will call or even have time. Christmas is the length of a child's attention span, on Christmas eve. They all go to the other Grandparents' houses today.
There are things I can go to here, but I wish I didn't have to go alone, not with the weather this wretched.
