9-9-2009

6am



With all the things that need to get done before we leave, I sit here quietly watching the sunrise and know there are those times we must sit still and just breathe. My daughter is still asleep in the next room, she is usually up at 5am, but she's fighting a nasty cold. So I have been pumping the herbs and vitamins in us and downing lots of water, knowing that caring for both of us is paramount right now!

The excitement surrounding this trip is growing and just the fact that people are taking interest is huge all in itself! I am hoping that the people that we come in contact with will realize the importance of communication, and how all human beings need to be heard and need to learn how to really listen to one another. My hope is that instead of being awakened by some horrible event, that finds us shaking our heads with disbelief, we can learn to stay present and start creating conversations and follow those with action, to take down the walls of domestic violence.

Right now I am asking for strength and the courage to go out there and speak from my heart, tell my story, listen to the stories of others and help create positive change!

Strength

Strength is more than
physical power.
It is an intellectual and
moral force.
It is being tough enough
to stay the course.
Strength is the determination
to follow through.
Think about the power
of water to carve out stone.
Consider the sapling's
fragile system compared
to the deep roots of an
old oak.
Be strong.






Melinda Field, Wisdom of the Crone



This is the Strength Card from Wisdom of the Crone

The image of the woman in the tree was my Grandmother Etta Wakefield Wolfenden, in the early nineteen hundreds she was an Osteopath, all her siblings were doctors as was her mother and father.

When she married my grandfather, she stopped doing what she loved to make my grandfather happy, he wouldn't allow her to drive or work. So she rode the street car everywhere in Berkeley California and from all the stories that people have told me about her, she was extraordinary because she never lost her capacity to give and love despite the control others had on her. In those days you didn't question control, you just did what you were told. She was one of those dear souls who did it with a smile on her face.


Never ever give up the things you love to make someone else happy. It is about understanding each others gifts and shortcomings, and learning to work, live and love together, with patience. tolerance and acceptance. Demanding something of someone, is cruel and controlling and unnecessary. Always strive for compassion. This rule should apply to all human beings.