12/28/2013
My grandmother, serene in the garden at dawn, humming to her roses. She spots me, barefoot and sleepy, picks me up and rests a drop of dew on my lips, smiling. I am quenched and put my cheek on her bosom. This image is my opening for the year coming. As time passes I sense my energy shifting towards quietness rather than voices, which, in fact, tend to distract me from creativity and my work with the Orisha. Having dedicated my time to people, gregariousness, and communal laughter, it’s strange to awaken to a need for solitude. My older friends tell me I’m evolving into an elder. I welcome this; it feels at once grounding and light. I wish for the humming of the heart and more and more, lately, I’ve been hearing it when I have been quiet. I wonder how many out there are going through it, how many like me feel less and less the need to share time with others and more the urge to commit the latter to prayer/creation. My plan for 2014 is to spend as much time as possible by myself, to reconnect with Spirit, Soul, and Self, and regenerate Consciousness. I have a vision that my priesthood – serving the people at large, loving the world - will find the deepest expression this way. And I have one wish, to travel alone to an unknown place and walk it on foot. I wish you all the same: dare to voice to yourself your deepest desire and grant it. Follow your bliss.