7 - Initiation, part 2: an ending
Oh hey! I've been writing this post for 3 days, and it's finally ready. It happens to be Valentine's Day! I didn't plan it this way, but I think it's delightfully appropriate that this post tells a pivotal piece of the story of how my ideas about, and experience of, love and relationships went through a radical up-ending and transformation when I was in my early 40's. This is where this up-ending all began. Happy Valentine's Day! -------------- This post is a continuation of the story that I began in my last post titled "Reiki..", so if you haven't yet read that one, this one isn't going to make as much sense. This post, the previous one, and the next two or three, (or maybe four?) will be my attempt to condense an intense couple years of my life into a series of somewhat coherent and chronologically-arranged narratives. At the end of my last post, I had just moved to Pine River, a little town in north-central Minnesota, from a rural far...