Lovely! This comes at a fitting time (autumn) and for me, just days after the K-12, 3-story brick school of my childhood was leveled. Demolished. "It's just a building." The memories remain. So, whassup with the empty spaces? The weight of any regrets should be lifted, right? It's all dust now.
For you, at least, the house you will vacate will stand for years to come, whoever else may live under its roof, however many new children may be born there, and however many mistakes the parents may make. And they will make mistakes. We all do. Hindsight is 20/20. We may have trusted our intuition, only to wish we'd listened to our elders. Or we may have listened to our elders and failed to heed our own intuition.
Well, you set off a lot of thoughts and feelings with this one! Bravo!
Lovely comment!
My trust was in my "betters", the medical experts, the educational experts, trusting those to know more than I did was my biggest mistake.
My grammar school was leveled too. With its u-shaped, high windowed courtyard that my cousin and I whacked tennis balls against for hours on end (the cousin whose house I am buying), the swings I learned about flight on, the see saws and merry go rounds I learned physics on. The school my mother taught in. The big pool next door. We walked to the pool and back in our swim suits and flip flops, carrying nothing but a towel.
All gone now, leveled, athletic fields for my high school, which remains. I would love to head back there.
I'm thinking now my poem is about second chances. So you've set off a lot of thoughts. Thanks!
Ohhh sad, the school and playground and pool and all that has been leveled.
Even your son has been "leveled" in a sense, a result of trusting external authorities vs mom's intuition, owasco's intuition. So sad. May the "second chances" soon manifest themselves and yield good things!
I've just started this 2 hour interview, but she exposes how the medical industry has perverted a mother's intuition, among other things.
https://medicinestories.libsyn.com/30-supporting-the-innate-intelligence-of-the-immune-system-cilla-whatcott?mc_cid=1484d0657c&mc_eid=5d3eb1c5b6
How do you manage to listen to 2-hour videos?
i really need to work on my listening skills!
I'm only halfway through. I keep them playing in the background until I hear something I don't already know (I've already listened to a great many), then tune in.
One thing this video covers is how a mother's sense of protecting her baby has been disabled. Babies are injected within the first hour of birth, with a vaccine that "protects" them from a disease most of them will never ever encounter. The baby's skin is pierced! Instinctively taboo! And we just go along with this. I think this particular jab is the most powerful black magic.
I keep hearing ads for the pneumonia vaccine.
Pneumonia is bacterial, isn't it? How can there be a vaccine for that?
Doctors go through so many years of intense, rigorous schooling, which few people can pass the exams to get into or win over the competition for limited openings in med school, so we are expected to revere and trust those who made the grade.
I used to believe in modern medicine and wanted to be a health practitioner myself. Now I just want to avoid the whole scene and go live in the woods like Little Witch Hazel in the Phoebe Wahl book.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56200635-little-witch-hazel?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=tjHO4m850w&rank=1
Sounds good to me too!
All vaccination is BS. If that pneumo jab works, and pertussis jab, why is the #1 cause of death in nursing homes respiratory? All residents are required to get those, and the flu jab, in most states.
I don't think this vaccine existed when my three were born:
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/324136
Benefits of the hepatitis B vaccine The main benefit of the vaccine is its effectiveness. The AAP note that if doctors give the first dose of the hepatitis B …
Hepatitis B, which I have never known one single person to have.
but take the baby from the mother, pierce its skin and inject known toxins to protect the baby from a disease it is highly unlikely to ever encounter. And we go along with this. It is the first time our mother's instinct is overridden. Then we allow it over and over again. This is all training us, and them, to obey. We are being programmed.
It all looks awesome. This quiz: Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine?
Mythic Medicine on Instagram
Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)
That quiz was hard!! How to choose between the Lion and the Bee as spirit animals; the five outfits at the vintage store (purple dress, white lace top, green and silver robe); which gemstone (gold is not even a stone!) - did you take the quiz? My plant is violet:
This must be your plant, @owasco!
So I took the quiz again, this time answering with the other choices (so hard to decide!), and got mugwort.
I didn't know this about violets. I like candied violets though...
Ooh, do you heat them in sugar water until the water evaporates?
I've tried making my own sugar ginger but gave it up.
Candied violets would be beautiful at a spring wedding banquet. Must learn to make pretty things (edible too, an added bonus) for my table. Must get dinner guests to my table. Must learn to cook again... all my old favorites and specialites (pie crust from scratch! Crescent rolls! I did it all) are gone, gone from my life, and I just haven't sustained the charitable spirit of baking these things for others who can eat them when I cannot....
Brilliant!
I'm sorry about your school. I do not understand why they knock them down.