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The last three times in particular that I’ve been home I’ve been communicating with the totems on Dad’s farm, the farm where I grew up with. I used to do this a lot as a child, but I’d forgotten how to, or just stopped doing it. I didn’t realise it’s what I’ve been doing, because they’ve been very subtle, and they’ve taken a step back at the moment due to the physical “damage” he’s done to the place.

In Dad’s defence, he’s just “cleaning” the place up, and I think they understand that, but they see in me someone who knows how this land should look and feel, and it feels very dead at the moment. Times have been harsh, and dry, and there hasn’t really been anyone there to nourish this land in a long time.

 

Dad doesn't understand any of this... )

Going home

Nov. 11th, 2010 04:04 pm
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A tiny twinge to the throat on the way back from a weekend up Home, and a day later I was confined to bed for a week. I’m now finally able to really get down to some of the things I’ve learned during that week about myself, my body, and how I process my emotions.

Apparently I'm just wanting to bark at the world... angry Donna! )
Kumu asked me to take a look at my throat, and communication, and noticed that I have always come back sick whenever I’ve been up Home visiting my parents, in particular, I always have a reaction to my Dad in general. I really took this to bed (literally) to mull over as I got sicker and sicker with fevers, coughing (the Doctor actually thought there was a chance I had Whooping Cough), and general fatigue. I “slept on it” for a week.

 

 

Here’s what I learned, in no particular order )

 

Good things I got out of going Home were )

I wrote a journal entry many many years ago about how you can never go home again. I was wrong. It felt like I’d come home again this time, and it was pretty much how it had always been, I’m just older, and hopefully a little wiser, now. Things change, but you can always go home, even if it’s just in your heart.
 


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