part one (of three) and mary jane austin

7/5/06
Part One

ha,
farmers imagine they are working for their own benefit,
feeding their families and the community at large,
but nowadays, millions of acres of wheat
successfully maintaining their global presence
have farmers tending to them every season.
this dialectic relationship evolved from millenia ago,
for as long as there has been human civilization,
back when wheat had "become civilzed", learning
to domesticate the race of human hunter-gatherers.

-i'm not sure what this says about serious illness,
like my friend's breast cancer.
this part one mentions the relativity of how we see
ourselves by an example of how easily one's viewpoint
yields extremely different awareness. it is supposed to
build a case for enlarging our experience quite a bit,
when it comes to thinking about life and death, what is
really going on.
i need to share what's become a healing focus,
an energetic effort at various times during the day, when
my mind settles on the wish for my friend's health and
wanting to help in a compassionate way, by allowing stress
to leach out from this time of illness, by helping to
remain positive and open to love which is healing, and by
putting things in perspective.
next, part two and three try in some wandering way to find
that release, that beauty, that orientation of the larger
universal matrix as it sits over and around our own life.

(btw, mary jane austin, the herbal author, has written
a wonderful description of the change in people's
reaction to chemotherapy by some biochemical letting go.)


:)oh~