Considering...

"Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing really is very frightening..." -Gertrude Stein.

one way to put it

I loved this part of the chapter in Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott. I have never heard it put quite so eloquently.

"Uncried tears syndrome left my mother hypervigilant, unable to settle down into herself, and to use the clinical term---cuckoo."
-Anne Lamott

this is a cold march day outside the orphanage. brrr. it's very quiet there when it snows...

American Australian and an interpreter

We do sandplay in orphanages with kids. What is sandplay? Good question...

Introduction to Sandplay Therapy
Dora M. Kalff
Dora Kalff, Jungian therapist, developed sandplay therapy in Switzerland in the 1950s and '60s based on her studies at the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich, in Tibetan Buddhism, and with Margaret Lowenfeld, in England.

Summary:The client is given the possibility, by means of figures and the arrangement of the sand in the area bounded by the sandbox, to set up a world corresponding to his or her inner state. In this manner, through free, creative play, unconscious processes are made visible in a three-dimensional form and a pictorial world comparable to the dream experience. Through a series of images that take shape in this way, the process of individuation described by C. G. Jung is stimulated and brought to fruition.

Luci, first day home.

answers

Here is my new painting: I finished it last night after a long week of adjusting to America again.

This is Anita, singing a little diddy at the first "wheelie bin cafe" in Queensland Australia. She is my fellow traveller and a damn good singer. We work together overseas in Eastern Europe.