{"id":4234,"date":"2014-06-04T16:12:34","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T20:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=4234"},"modified":"2014-06-04T16:12:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T20:12:34","slug":"remedial-joy-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=4234","title":{"rendered":"“Remedial Joy” Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

This suggestion is from Martha Beck, Finding your own North Star<\/a>, pp214-215<\/p>\n

She says \u201cIf you can\u2019t cast your mind back to experiences that make you thrill with joy, you\u2019re due for some remedial work.\u201d\u00a0 So I went back and gathered a list of stories.\u00a0 I remember times when just thinking about the Chalice Well, or about the Ocean of Compassion<\/a>, would recall the actual emotions.\u00a0 Now they don\u2019t, though I did feel better after I wrote the list.\u00a0 So I started writing out the stories.<\/p>\n

Caryn McHose, my somatic experiencing therapist, responded when I was telling her the plot of the Brother Cadfael book I was reading (Monk\u2019s Hood<\/a>): \u201cThose books are your Bible, and that story is a story of redemption.\u201d\u00a0 She said I had lots of stories, and lots of stories of redemption.\u00a0 So I started putting those on the list, and writing out what happened.\u00a0 Some of these stories have been posted on this blog: e.g.\u00a0Turkeys<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The third motive for collecting these stories came from the \u201cArk of Hope<\/a>\u201d. \u00a0The Ark of Hope was created as a place of refuge for the Earth Charter and Temenos Books.\u00a0 The Ark of Hope was displayed at the Vermont College of Fine Arts<\/a> during the visit of the Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers<\/a> to Montpelier. \u00a0I went into the room where it was set up\u00a0and fell in love.\u00a0 The big box was beautifully painted, and had two carrying poles.\u00a0 The books that had been made by children, artists and peace activists were displayed around the room.\u00a0 Each book was 8\u201dx 8\u201dx 2\u201d, and expressed hopes, prayers and affirmations for Planet Earth.\u00a0 The books were fascinating.\u00a0 Some had writing, some were collages, some had pottery or weaving, all unique, all beautiful.\u00a0 I started imagining making little books of stories that were important to me, and collaging a biggish box to keep them in.\u00a0 This idea disappeared and reappeared over the years.\u00a0 I had a cardboard box with a top that had once carried tomatoes.\u00a0 It was 9\u201dx 11\u201dx 15\u201d. Last week it contained copies of Ode Magazine<\/a>.\u00a0 I had hoped to be able to give them away to someone, maybe a school teacher, who would use them for projects for children.\u00a0 This idea fell victim to rejection by the first place I offered it, and my inability to persevere, and probably a depression triggered by something I didn\u2019t notice.\u00a0 I thought of the project again when I started making lists of stories.\u00a0 I remembered\u00a0that I had torn up a lot of paintings I had done in a weekend workshop, intending to use them for collage.\u00a0 I realized I could use them to collage the box!\u00a0 So I went to the dump and put all the magazines into the recycle bin. \u00a0Next step is to start collaging the box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This suggestion is from Martha Beck, Finding your own North Star, pp214-215 She says \u201cIf you can\u2019t cast your mind back to experiences that make you thrill with joy, you\u2019re due for some remedial work.\u201d\u00a0 So I went back and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healing","category-journal","category-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}