(I wrote this at a workshop with Deena Metzger at Rowe in April 2010. \u00a0I was outside sitting near an altar of stone set up in front of a big quartz rock.)<\/p>\n
Quartz.\u00a0 Crystallized slowly from a melt where all the darker minerals have already crystallized out.\u00a0 I go to temper my soul on hard rock.\u00a0 Yosemite Valley, climbing the granite slab.\u00a0 Rock melts and folds and hardens again.\u00a0 Rock breaks and dissolves, and in the warm solution Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen gather and become alive.\u00a0 Rock learns to breathe, crawls ashore, roots itself.\u00a0 There are delicate mosses, bright green leaves pushing through.\u00a0 There is a stump and it\u2019s bleeding.\u00a0 Rock grew a backbone, four legs, began to walk.\u00a0 Reptiles grew feathers and one sits in the tree saying \u201ctsip, tsip\u201d.\u00a0 Flowers too and sky.\u00a0 Rock transforming itself.\u00a0 Dead bodies fall, and decay, are eroded, carried by rivers, sink and settle and harden and become rock again.\u00a0 The rock sparkles in the sun, it has layers, banded colors, hard and soft.\u00a0 Rock sparkles in the sun \u2014 it is an altar \u2014 smaller rocks gather, bring twigs and dead needles, a nest for rock babies.\u00a0 There\u2019s a shell here too, rock became creature, grew shells, left shells behind, shells gather, pressed tightly as more come from above, the long rain of shells that becomes limestone or marble if cooked hot enough. \u00a0Rock stands on its hind legs, grows a brain and opposible thumbs.\u00a0 This could be dangerous.\u00a0 What has rock got itself into now?<\/p>\n
What story is written in the rock, what can it tell us for these hard times? \u00a0Rock says pressure and heat form marble from limestone, transform coal to diamond.\u00a0 Rock says go deep, melt, stay long in the depths, find metamorphic, metaphoric, what transformation happens in the deep.<\/p>\n
Love will keep us alive
\nhelp will finally arrive,
\nthere are so many ways to survive.<\/p>\n
(The idea of “Rock recycling itself” came from Elisabet Sahtouris’ book “EarthDance<\/a>.” \u00a0She says there is a Russian scientist who describes the activity of life on our planet as rock changing form. \u00a0I wasn’t able to find the quote. \u00a0The last lines are from a song about the Holocaust. \u00a0I don’t remember where I heard it, or the woman’s name who wrote and sang it. \u00a0Just the chorus stays in my heart.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (I wrote this at a workshop with Deena Metzger at Rowe in April 2010. \u00a0I was outside sitting near an altar of stone set up in front of a big quartz rock.) Quartz.\u00a0 Crystallized slowly from a melt where all … Continue reading