Pilgrimage Studio

Tag: Memory

  • Echoes

    Echoes

    by Thela 🦊 Foxgood

    I’m thankful that this is all we saw of Dorian here. For those who saw so much more of her: we pray the aid and help needed be close at hand.

    Echoes

    I hear the echoes of our voices along the swampy path as I retrace old footprints. The happy dogs are roaming again. The heron stands still for long, long moments; patience turns slowly on its own axis of time. Nothing seems to move fast here. Dragonflies, the size of birds, drift, rather than dart.

    Treasures gathered, I step back through the moss-covered portal once again and return to this present time. Yet, I carry these echoes within me always.

    *****

    Light a candle and sit quietly before it. Focusing on the blue part of the flame, meditate on something that you’ve lost but still carry within your soul. Perhaps it is a person who has passed on, a dream that didn’t bloom, or a hope that was crushed.

    Feel your heart beating with a hundred feelings; with all the feelings that surround this memory.

    Choose one detail that you would like to save. It might be represented by a song or picture, a mannerism, or a favorite book or food. Hold this detail in your heart and looking at the bluish flame, meditate on this gift you carry within you toward a new day dawning.

  • Origami

    Origami

    by Beth Haley

    From this blank square of paper, the zen question, “Who am I?” becomes, “What am I?”

    This seemingly simple art can fold and unfold into many layers of meaning.

    The end result is, not necessarily, as important as the process of creating. If we are mindful throughout this creative endeavor, we may each see something different.

    “All things are given life and form.”

    Religion in Chinese Garments by

    Karl Ludvig Reichelt

    The square is the uncarved block (Pu is a Chinese word meaning “unworked wood”). The Taoist meaning of Pu is: perception without prejudice and without the distinctions of right or wrong, beautiful or ugly, good or bad, black or white.

    This square of paper is my uncarved block.

    Transformation

    Fold after fold. Crease and un-crease; a new creation is coming into being. Just like we can take the old lines and creases of our life and transform them into something new.

    Memory

    The paper has memory; it remembers its past lines. They are like scars on the soul. They may heal, but once there, those lines remain.

    Self examination

    We can unfold (turn back time), and remember our past. Then, make new creases and story lines to form a new shape, outlook, new picture, or a new present and future.

    Haley 2019