A Community of Care

Who do you want to be during Covid-19? I have definitely found myself in all the zones throughout the past weeks, I am human. What I notice is, the more time I spend in the growth zone, the better I feel and the friendlier the world around me feels. It takes some learning to get there, but it is worth the work. What zone are you hanging out in lately? This chart is from Debbie Steer who posted it on Facebook in the Inspiration for Isolation Group.

T.S. Eliot has been my favorite poet for 48 years. I did a biographical study of his long poem, “The Four Quartets“ as part of an honors project in English during my college days so long ago. One of the lines from “The Four Quartets” keeps going through my mind during the past week, “So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness, the dancing. “

About a month ago, the last time I was with my family, I had this dream. It was such a little dream. But now I know it to be a big dream, at least for me. I have sat with it every day since it appeared, and it speaks to me more and more each day. “The Incredible Lightness of Being” I see a huge, round bumblebee, hovering in the air in front of me. It is buzzing as it hovers. It’s translucent wings are a blur of motion. There is no setting except for the air rushing around the moving wings. It’s just the bee I see, as if nothing else exists. Just the bee. I feel amazed, entranced, enthralled by the glory of it. It just is, as if that is enough. Like the incredible lightness of be(e)ing. And as I have been rereading Gurdjieff this past week, I have discovered that he visited with the Sarmon Brotherhood in Central Asia, a group who was symbolized by the bee, as those who collect the precious wisdom of traditional wisdom. I am also reminded of the bee as the symbol for Christ Consciousness, perhaps a fitting symbol for this weekend.