Circles and Cycles
A METAPHYSICAL APPROACH TO ADDICTION
Excerpt:
“To approach the phenomenon of addiction from a metaphysical perspective is to see it as a whole, as a figure upon a ground. Without the background context, there is no contrast, and the figure does not snap into place, as a form. But to do this takes a great leap of imagination.”
Ann Kreilkamp
Dreams, Magic, Miracles
OUR MAGIC WAND
Excerpt:
“I discovered that at the source of life is soul; that if I am in touch with soul, and align my personal will with its directive, then I experience the universe as alive, and it in turn supports me.”
Ann Kreilkamp
Aging, Dying, Death, Grief
REWORKING MEMORY, INVOKING CRONE
Excerpt:
“Clock time takes away the original sense of cyclical time with which nature bestowed us. Clock time is linear time, the endless string of moments, each of equal (no) value, a mere point on a line, itself alone, enjoying no context, no matrix, no meaningful connection with what lay before or what is to come.”
Ann Kreilkamp
Peace, Community
THE GRANDMOTHERS’ DANCE
Excerpt:
“We begin to dance, slowly round and round, hearts and feet entraining to the drumming, thirty women in a circle, arms around each other, no beginning, no ending, left foot, left foot, left foot, entering our left sides, thinning that veil between the visible and the invisible, entranced.”
Ann Kreilkamp
Relationships
MEDITATION ON MY HUSBAND’S MOTHER
Excerpt:
“Jeff and I had been together for one year when his parents decided to visit us. We were both surprised. Rhoda and Amos live in a big house in New Jersey, near New York City. Jeff and I live in a yurt in a tiny unincorporated village in Wyoming. The culture shock, for them, would be enormous.”
Ann Kreilkamp
Relationships
MEDITATION ON MY MOTHER
Excerpt:
“I’ve heard it said that a woman doesn’t come into her own until her mother dies. If so, then I am still unconsciously tied to a mother who, nearing 90, is very much alive. Or is she? How alive is my own mother?”
Ann Kreilkamp
Nature & Animals
TO BE ONE WITH THE RIVER
Excerpt:
“We are entering the upper inner granite gorge of the Grand Canyon, we are to travel 300 miles down a gradient of 2,200 feet into the Mother, this river her cleft; the gorge which holds it and above us, the eerie tawny pink folds and crevasses of canyonlands her
secret inner anatomy.”
Ann Kreilkamp
Nature & Animals
A CONSPIRACY OF ANIMALS
Excerpt:
“Something in me” directed my eyes to look up, exactly into the doe’s eyes. Her gentleness has seeped into me. So has her matter-of-factness. She and the geese are both “doing their thing”.
She chews; they rest. Both species belong. Do I?”
Ann Kreilkamp
Ebook
PERSONALLY PROCESSING PLUTO
Excerpt:
“My best friend Mary and I loved Elvis Presley . . . we would listen to his throbbing, guttural wail and dream of kissing our boy friends. In the process of hearing his songs together, we wordlessly supported each other's turbulent feelings.”
Ann Kreilkamp
