This week has been particularly melancholic (lack of sleep, lack of exercise, lack of self-reflection) and so there is a hint of ennui in these themes…
1. Coffee.
2. Trains.
3. Traveling (the journey from here to there).
4. Death (yeah, it’s a thing. It’s been on my mind lately – not surprising).
5. Spirit Quests.
So we can sort of see where I’m starting from… I particularly like the idea of the spirit quest. I was given a totem when I was a girl guide, and at the time I thought it was just about the most wicked awesome thing in my whole life. We got woken up in the middle of the night, taken from our tents and lead by torch to a campfire. We were then made to go through a series of “challenges” before each of our names were revealed to us. The next morning, after I had lived with my new totem for a few hours, I felt… I don’t know, “chosen”, “special”. The idea that this name had been conjured up just for me, made me feel really terrific. I wanted to live up to my totem name, and to some extent, I still do to this day. And the fact that this name was given to me nearly 20 years ago, and I still remember it, and try to live by it, really tells you something, doesn’t it?
Picture Meme:
The Rideau Canal (Sep 09). That awkward time of year after the summer boaters have left, but before the beavertail huts have been put in for Winterlude.
Taken from my back deck at 6:30am. I had just come back from Bootcamp and was feeling pretty low. This helped.
Taken on route to London, ON. October 2009.