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April Newsletter

Since our last newsletter, my great nieces, twins, Mabel Rose and Celia Lee have come into this world...  they are delicate and simultaneously strong, they are described to be like two little birds with their little sounds and moving in harmony with one another.  One moves in one direction and the other follows.  Their beings radiate the amazing innocence and preciousness of beginning life...  anyone who has communed with a newborn infant knows the magic that one enters into ~~ it feels like an utter privilege...  They live across the country from me and yet I can sense this just from looking at their photos and face timing with them...  I feel like I can almost smell their yummy-ness from here.

With the presence of the quintessence of innocence, the heart opens and life transforms.  There is nothing like it.

Since we are not around newborns day in and day out, the question that arises for me is ~~~ "how does one stay in touch with the miracle and preciousness of life every day as if we were around a newborn all the time?"

Life appears to get much more complicated as we get older, taking us away from those early days of snugly sleep, drinking milk, peeing, pooping, cuddling, making sounds and sleeping some more.... so back to the question, how do we remember the magic of the mystery of life?

On the other side of the spectrum of the innocence of my newborn great nieces are the issues that the new HBO season series True Detective presents to us.  As I watched, I was brought to my knees as I confronted the mystery of death and life, the ugly of humanity and the good, reality and non-reality, truth and distortion, and the mix of fear and surrender, courage and will -- and the intensity of living... all of which lil Mabel and Celia are embarking upon...

I share one of the many powerful quotes that comes out of Detective Rust's mouth -- this one slays something inside of me and has not stopped echoing echoing echoing...

As Detective Rust studies a series of photos of murdered people, mostly women and children, he says as he looks into the face of one of the victims, "You look in her eyes.  They welcomed it. Not at first but in the last instant. It's an unmistakable relief because they were afraid and now they saw for the first time how easy it was to just let go.  In that last nanosecond they saw what they were.  That you yourself, this whole big drama, it was never anything but a jerry-rig of presumption and dumb will and you could just let go, finally now that you didn't have to hold on so tight, to realize that all your life, all you love, all you hate, all your memory, all your pain, it was all the same thing, a dream that you had, inside a locked room, a dream about being a person."

How do we remember... that space within us that was before conception, after departure and always present?

Love, devajoy

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