Lessons to learn from

Torn from the pages of my 3D journal...

RE: She told me about one of her sister's, my great aunt, gone now, she was the one aunt (out of 11 siblings) who could remember and discuss her experience of incest. this aunt was the aunt who took care of their dad in the end. Gran wanted to know how, how could she have been so kind to him, how could she have been compassionate? her sister sed that it had happened, it was in the past, and thats where it would stay. she confided in granny, that the only time their dad was nice to her was when he was, well, you know. she rhetorically added, did i ever leave him alone with my girls?

I wonder if a healing moment for my auntie came through the act of taking care of her father in his old age infancy.I was re-reading this passage when it struck me, auntie R. re-wrote her story to a much better ending just as Dr. Christine Northup, and Dr. myss, and University psychiatrist Ernest Hartmann all recommend for moving past trauma. only instead of imagining it she lived it.

When it came time for her to switch roles with her parent, instead of repeating the trauma he visited on her by visiting abuse onto him, she nutured him, comforted him, fed him and cared for him to the end. a truly compassionate act.

is that what life is? an injury rehearsal? an ever unfolding opportunity for ritualistic releases of old hurts and baggage? an evervescing upwards, into lighter and lighter realms of being?

Fish # 2 : (Nearing the Surface)