The poncho is growing! For a while, I listened to Marion Woodman lectures as I crocheted. Tonight, I started listening to the audiobook for James Hollis's A Life of Meaning.
"Life is a series of passages. In every passage there is a death of some sort, the death of naïveté, the death of a dependency, the death of an understanding of self and world. And, after that death, there is often a terrible 'in-between,' sometimes lasting years."
— James Hollis, What Matters Most (via Sophiacycles)
"I think any time that one loses a loved one, one has to decide, what do I do with my life in the face of that? Having lost a child, I became acutely conscious of people said, well, how do you get through that or how do you deal with that? Well, it wouldn't serve my son to curl up myself. I think I need to go on and serve the values that he and I had in common. And I think in doing so, it's a way of honoring his presence in my life on a daily basis [...] I think when one goes through significant losses in one's life, one has to say, all right, the energy that was there has now come back to me. What am I going to do with that energy? What is the task that this is asking of me?"
— James Hollis, "The Summons of the Soul" (via Sophiacycles)