Lorna Writes

What I write about in this post is how the final foundation stone of experience fell in place for the building of my worldview. It's a foundation stone that has put my relationships with humans into a whole different perspective than I had before; a perspective that is radically different from most of what I see around me, but one that I find immensely empowering. This foundation stone came along in 2009, but it took many more years after that to build the rest of the building that I gave a very brief description of in my first post about my worldview.             ------------------------- I'm going to set the stage for finding this foundation stone by taking up my chronological story where I left off. The last I wrote about where I was, I was staying with my 84-year-old dad, taking care of him at his home on the North Shore of Lake Superior. I spent August to October of 2008 living with him and bringing him back to somewhat normal health. But living with h...

Ugh, I've been trying to write a post for over a week, about becoming aware of Martín Prechtel and his books and teachings. It's been difficult because of just how much impact he has had on my life. No other author or teacher has influenced me as much as Martín, or given me such a complex and compelling view of the possibilities of being human. In some ways, it feels like my life ever since becoming aware of him, has been a tug-of-war between finding my own path in the world, and feeling inspired and magnetized and validated by the stories and worldview that he presents. So this is me starting over from the beginning, with a whole different post, trying to pare down all the things I could say, to just what I need to say at this point in my story, to introduce the first main ideas of his that impacted me.                 -------------------------- When Ed and I moved to Pine River in 2006, we were plunged into a community whose diverse people inspi...