Blessing 2006
BLESSING, 2006
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May Earth
ground and comfort you
May Wind
give you wings
May Water
nourish and refresh you
May Fire
alert and protect you
and may your
soul be at peace
© A. Maie 2006
Introduction and contents
Most of these reflections were written 1994-2000; others are more recent. Many of them became texts for performances. They, and the performances, were part of a process of coming to terms with and developing a philosophy of life. One of the stages in this process was my doctoral thesis, Centre of the Storm: In Search of an Australian Feminist Spirituality through Performance-Ritual. The performance element of the thesis traced ancestral pathways and stories from north-western Europe to Australia, and the process formulated my own religious paradigm, that is, a spiritual ground and matrix, which encapsulated an increasing awareness of place. I view the poems and reflection as expressing my ‘growing up’; of attaining peace; of being able to celebrate the journey of life with full knowledge of the messy and confronting realities of our own lives and those of our co-travellers. The content here comprise only a selection of the poems and reflections written at the time. Growing Up
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