First, I got to spend a large portion of my day with the awesomely-interesting person who is the subject of my first collaborative memoir (for my own version of the Storytelling Project). We met this morning at The Black Sheep Coffeehouse. There, he and I talked for 4 hours about his life, his magic, his experiences with the world, and then some random interview ice-breaker questions (like my personal favorite: What is your favorite color? WHY?).
Anyways, he facilitated an exercise where I had to use my instinct to sort the cards by color (with out actually seeing the colors). When I was thinking about sorting/guessing which was black and red... I was wrong. When I had the deck of cards, face down, and focused on a happy memory and just made piles completely based on instinct... it was very nearly correctly sorted. The ONLY exception is when I thought about negative things for 4 cards of my sorting.
It was amazing. And awesome.
My happy memory: Sitting in Caribou (from a Starbucks employee... eeeek) with my best friend playing Scrabble. It just filled me with this warmth and happiness remembering how amazing he is and how reuniting with him felt like the most amazing breath of fresh air.
My sad memory/ unhappy thought: The feeling I had when the man held his knife up to my throat. The cold sting of the metal is still crisp in my mind.
Second, this evening I learned how to make music by dancing my fingertip around the rim of a glass. It was so cool. I realize it isn't something that is very special, as most people already know how to do it.. but I felt SO much excitement.
Today, I learned a lot about humility and grace and beauty.
Today, I felt like ME for the first time in weeks, and it was just... amazing. Pure amazing.
H.Eilene
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