 bubbles of sadness burst themselves all around my body and being -
i kneel, i flee the room, i let tears have their way. another token of a saddened day remembered so long ago, so often now reborn. shades of a person, memory of their soul, you want to touch it, press it, but it lies so buried in dimensions’ softness. constricted softness holding eternity, the whispers and imprints of what was, what is. what hasn’t been - its dull and studded wall not yet clambered over, its invincibility a blurred imagining in our ever-present minds. they say we need more presence, or to “be present” i said it myself just two days ago, if I could just be present to the beauty of the present enjoy it as much as my heart deems it wants. but why the “if” - if that’s my solution… to how i wish to be in a state of happiness, how i am seeking ways of thinking to make it so. if I just think in the PRESENT, and positively at that… THEN, i can enjoy the NOW and my tomorrow will be just as good. For it will be its own present, of its own. i’m just not sure that that’s the way of thinking i wish to choose and employ. i sit in the dark at my desk, having forgotten to close the window from the evening chill, i sit and realize i’m freezing, and thirsty, and a candle burns upon the dresser/altar joined by the light of the laptop screen, and the sound machine loops its static heartbeat womb noises from the baby’s room down the hall… and i am unsure. need to take a breath. again i ask my soul, my anything, my world and existence. how can I see into those soft warm folds of everythingness? can i reach in and just hug my grandparents, or, be hugged by them? that’s all I wonder for now, as i cry a prayer of wishing my family safe, after breaking into tears standing in the kitchen after putting the baby to bed, ready to make dinner but first, bang! - - a thousands sadness bubbles burst around my body and being… In tears I leave the kitchen to kneel on the yoga mat left from some earlier lazy stretching. its blue color, along with the welcoming hardness of the wood floor, embrace my prostration but I can only last a minute before retreating to the bedroom and letting my body fall as if in slow motion onto the bed. Feels like I have so much to cry about. There’s no time for crying right now, it’s late and you gotta go make dinner, I tell myself. But the tears continue unchecked until I wipe my face a few minutes later, rise to light a candle and burn some palo santo (because I’m a gypsy hippie after all), and sit down on the blue exercise bouncy ball that is my desk chair. Open the “drafts” file off a fresh desktop window on my macbook to begin typing, but am caught off guard by the last thing I had written here. So I read it. Proofread it sort of. It makes me cry harder for a moment and then all at once it helps me to stop crying. The text was a sort of birth story, written as a review of my doctor. It’s too long (said yelp when I tried to post it), even though I thought I was keeping it succinct. I thought people wrote pretty long essay-ish reviews on there so I went at it. Was too long and I never posted it, having seen that in the 17 months since he delivered my baby, he had gotten loads of positive reviews. ANYWAY, the paragraphs on the bright screen, dimmed to contrast less with the darkness of the room, but still very bright… small thin letters carried me out of the sadness. it had been such a soaking, heavy-ish feeling - encompassing my entire self and requiring full lay-down-on-bed maneuvering. it’s a bit like grief, never quite going away. it’s grief. it never goes away. it gets smoothed and coated. it gets hidden, or tangled, or processed in a healthy way and released. (that last one is bullshit) it never goes away. you can “release it” and think it’s released, observe it as released, commemorate it as such, teach others how to do likewise, describe how and why, when and where, with whom, through what, how else. infinite ways of dealing. of healing. of words and words and thoughts, feelings, dreams, travels, trips, quests, voyages and pilgrimages. of infinities. infinities onto infinities. and then - plop! back to you, just you. a woman on an edge, from maiden to mother. grieving. always. and rejoicing. always. the grief is there, but it becomes something else. creativity. and something akin to an angelic power. an amplifier. a never-ending blessing. i reach my arm into a nondescript void, a void which so embodies the meaning of a void that it is not a void - and I feel my feet follow in step… am I here? inside the everything?
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Typing is the easiest form of getting it down for me. And I need to get it down, easily. No strength to write manually. No energy to use a pen on paper. Pressing keyboard buttons, I can manage. And even still, it's a bit hard at the moment. My aura is shrunken today. Gosh that sounds silly. But there are massive solar flares today. Biggest in five years, says NASA. I think I can feel them. Gosh that sounds strange. But I've been meditating on my solar plexus/third chakra all week and it's extra sensitive. It's yellow, and it's solar, and it can detect the sun's extra-long waves, reaching all the way to... me. And deeper still into the Earth and through its core and out the other side and on into space, and I don't know where else, and I know I sound insane, but there, I got it down. Just a thought. A sensation. Day started with a difficult rising from the bed (morning dreams held me captive), a reluctant trudge to yoga class, a barely-huffed-and-puffed-through class, an afternoon-long nap, and more laziness and moodiness in the evening. And sure, I brought it on myself. And I ain't even complaining of it now, just marking it so that I can remember the unproductive stupor for future reference. The numbness and heaviness in my bones, and buzz in my nerves and the fizz in my aura... it must be the solar storm right? What's it telling me? I want to be back to my daily-meditating self striving for higher consciousness. I am still there, even if I let go at times. Maybe when I pray so hard and hold mudras and meditate to the ocean (beautiful beach day back on Monday), it's expected that a day or two of lows come along... Polarity. Balance. Light and darkness. Shadow self. Shadow world. I know the goal is equanimity and consistency. But I welcome all polarities of spiritual experience. The flare officially reaches us in five hours. It's a full moon in four. Argued a bit with parents today and I shed tears. I question my motives and actions everyday but I also practice gratitude and positive affirmation... and visualization for a beautiful future. What really does it hold in store? Yes we are to create it. But what is it that we are going to create? Really. Honestly. In which directions are we headed? "World War III" ? Enlightenment and ascension? What the heck? So many ideas and projections. What are mine? Beauty, love, peace. Even if I can't maintain it within my self and family at times? Yes. Even still. That's the world I strive for. How? I'm too lazy. There's too much in me I just don't know what to do with, how to use, how to transform into... what? What is it I need to do? What am I not seeing? 
"The Third Eye," oil on canvas, by Yelena Chemerisov, my mother. Please visit her site! www.verarey.comEpic booming whisper nightly dawns on me and mine. Earth floats on, around and round, again, and ever reaching. Somehow territory loses grip the shadows lie the crescent dips, I'm missing something but here I am. I know the way and I stand ready. The day is as gray as possible. Grayer, even. So much so that one can feel a depressive mood hanging in the air, like an awkward stillness between strangers in an elevator. Like the nervousness that hangs between individuals when they are trying too hard to make conversation. Or, like the sullen clouds, simply low and ready to burst with rain. Ready to cry.
Suddenly, sun. Its warmth and gentle yellowness caress my cheeks. The clouds having parted for just a short moment, I've soaked in an ounce of joy. And then, back to gray. It used to be that overcast days didn't bother me much. They took the pressure off of having to be cheerful. One could sulk freely on an "ugly" day. That novel idea alone caused me to think the grayness not at all ugly, but relaxing. Soothing even. And yet. Now. I hunger for sunshine. As if unconsciously realizing that its preciousness is eventually doomed, destroyed. Millions of years hence, perhaps. Still, enough to render it mortal, just like us. And that just makes it easier to resent, easier to love, easier to wallow in, joyfully. |
