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January 9
Do you have any memories that have not yet happened? You wonder if they are
memories of dreams, or books or movies, hints from other lives you've lived or visions of
the future. Something in the texture of these thoughts lets you know they're special.
Maybe you remember them from a perspective that is older than you are and yet they
seem to have always been in your consciousness, you don't remember a time when you
did not have them.
I have one where I'm at some sort of spiritual sanctuary. There are graceful women
talking and we are sitting in a tree-ringed glade. Deer peek in from between the trees and
I know that they are revered friends. There is something significant about that, about it
all, something that tells me I am only glimpsing part of the story, a peek in the crystal
ball.
Ananda is to us a sanctuary and in a very delightful way we seem to be growing into this
memory. There is a doe that has been part of our lives for at least three years now. We
have seen her raise three sets of fawns. Some of them have stayed so that most of the
time there are seven to eleven deer on the property. There's Mama, her two youngest
and several other does, each with a yearling or two. We have a clearing in the meadow
where four cherry trees, autumn olive and oleander bushes have formed a ring. We've
planted evergreens that will someday fill in the gaps. Women, indeed, are drawn to
Ananda, among them my daughter and her friends, no longer children, but not quite fully
women. All of these things make me wonder if there will be a moment some Spring in
the future when I'll know that I have met my memory, and that it was vision.
Enjoy, Susan
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