The VQ Newsletter Archive |
Creativity,
Healing
& Shamanism: Workshop |
Celebrating a season of growth.
One quality of the creative process mentioned by many
authors is “resistance to premature closure.”
That is allowing your self to remain open to ambiguous ideas as they
appear and resist judging them too quickly.
The results can be a rich and rewarding creation.
It may also be quite unexpected and expanded from that on which we
originally focused. The creative
process changes us as we engage in it. I have experienced this process many times but this year
has been especially evolutionary for me. My
life, like yours I imagine, has been a kaleidoscope in constant change.
Once in awhile I get the opportunity to step back in wonder at the
pattern unfolding and ask: “Wow, what is this becoming?”
Coyote Oaks is one of those expanded ideas wherein the creative process
changed me. Therefore, in this
moment of wonder, I am inviting the many of you who are near enough to come to
share in this season’s last event at Coyote Oaks.
Come connect with other like-minded creative spirits and celebrate a
season of growth with us on Saturday, Oct. 20.
We will gather about 5:00 PM, have a potluck dinner at 6:00 and then
enjoy the sunset. After sunset, we
will have our final drumming group followed by socializing around the fire.
There is no charge. Bring
friends and family, a food dish to share with others and, libations to suite
your taste. In contrast, the kaleidoscope of current world events is
now an unsettling view. It is a
time when we must consider our thoughts carefully if our thoughts are to create
a world we want to live in. My
heart goes out to everyone who has suffered in this time along with my prayers
for their personal healing. I do
not claim the wisdom to solve this conflict but I feel certain that justice must
address global conditions that allow this hatred to fester. Destitution nurtures desperation. I also know I must not allow the seeds of hatred to sprout in
my heart no matter how zealously they have been sown. I realize this newsletter goes far beyond our local area and that most of you cannot attend our event. If you are near enough to make the drive I hope your will join us. I have posted directions on the site at: http://www.vantagequest.org/Coyote_Oaks/directions.htm. For the rest of you around the world, I hope you will join with us in spirit as we drum and lift up our hearts. Together, let us evoke the Divine, as we each know it. Let us bear the ambiguity of the Divine’s greater creative process and, though we do not understand, open our minds to become vessels overflowing with the balm of healing. May our hearts become the soil in which the seeds of love and wisdom flourish and that long after Oct. 20 and, for reasons greater than Coyote Oaks we continue to celebrate a season of growth. |
|