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{weblog_name} - more lessons from the moon
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My friends and I were talking recently about Life, lived life, the personal life that each of us uniquely experiences. One wise woman in the group offered the insight that we seem to have spiritual tasks, life tasks, she called them, that define our work at various ages. Pursuing well each task in its due time is a secret to life’s fulfillment. Over the past two weeks, I found this conversation weaving in and out of my thoughts, ultimately latching onto my musings about the moon. The moon’s passages and ours seem to reflect and reinforce each other. In its first phase, the moon is new, diffident, gazing to the east from which it comes, backing into this world with its curved, closed edge leading the way, unsure of what it will find. Alone, on its own, it has… read more