It’s one of those forward and backward kind of days in my world. You know… memories and dreams bumping into each other!
Friday, my older grand-teen graduated from High School!!! Her world is about to change in a huge way. My hope and prayer is that the “who” she’s always been will learn and grow, and discover more of her chosen path!
Then, the memories. It was just about exactly this time, in 1987, when – having just finished my BA – my son and I set out for Columbia Theological Seminary in an ancient VW bug. He was 7 years old. Some young adult church buddies caravanned along with us, to help with the move before continuing on to Montreat in North Carolina. It was quite the adventure. Especially the flat tire!
And, there were way more adventures to come!
That first summer was known as Baby Greek School, and wow, was I lost! In fact, I was approaching hopeless when the miracle happened. Our word for the day was Blepo which is Greek for “I see!” Suddenly I had something I could relate to as I was very familiar with eye surgery words, some of which actually begin with Blepo! And there was a bit less chaos in my world!
Our friend, above, is a bit of one of the paintings that whispers in my dreams. That’s the Asherah side of a 60″ wide canvas, from the adventure known as #Codex. The Divine Feminine side, if you will, complete with her winged eye for wisdom.
And a bunch of triangles on her forehead. The Greek letter Delta, which is a symbol for change!!!
Last night, she was singing…
“The times, they are a-chan-ange-ing!
They are, indeed. And, yes… it’s scary! (Well, at least a lot of it is for me!)
When I was making our Graduate’s card, a bit from an old movie came to me. Perhaps you’ve seen The Help. Old, southern, USA. Plantation country, in a way. Comfortable white families. Lots of help from black folks. And, lots of vastly overlooked wisdom, too!
Imagine a young maid/nanny whispering to the small girl she’s more or less raising:
Remember! You is smart. You is kind. You is important.
That is part of my prayer for our new graduate. And for ALL our Littles!!!
Our job is to VOTE like that matters!!! (Early run-off voting has begun in Georgia!) I’m choosing the ones who aren’t focused on keeping the White House happy. Who know that we are ALL important!!!
For this moment… a peek at the card I made for the amazing person who helped me see a whole new world and a whole new me…
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