Floydie

  Sending Terry’s spirit home: In the wind ... witnesses   In her language,  On her Country, She acknowledged the ancestors  and told them of our purpose there.   Quietly … we waited.   As she spoke so also a crow – the messenger bird called out             Telling the ancestors that another is to join them here   As the crows cries died down, a Wedge-tailed eagle appeared …             Then …             Another …  come at the crows’ call to receive our friend into their midst             The great crowd of witnesses revealing their welcome.   And … the wind … blew it blew … strongly   Spirt wind Creator Life giver Spirit receiver God revealer Reshaping land and seas Air and clouds And ...   crea...

  Journeying – knowing grief, living towards hope, and the complexity in between For Tony (Shirley), Amelia (Terry), and Susan (Tony)  sometimes slowly as mist rises in dawns early morning sometimes speedily as waters’ ceaseless flow over rapids and falls sometimes fleetingly, as dragonfly’s flit across tranquil waters – now here, then gone sometimes time, space, memories loss, grief, joy and laughter come and go, in and out disturbing and disconnecting renewing and revealing always there is no emerging pattern or formula no reliable progress towards ‘completion’ entering into a new beginning for life lived and deeply loved and those who inhabit it then and now and tomorrow’s tomorrow all mixed in there is only journey with immanence and distance a rich and disturbing peace-filled and relentless seeking-a-way discovering the invitation to receive the gifts of sight and hearing to continue becoming sometimes this journey is exciting the discoveries invasive in their emergence r...