{"id":4405,"date":"2014-10-08T13:11:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T17:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=4405"},"modified":"2021-12-11T14:40:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T19:40:20","slug":"more-about-vocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=4405","title":{"rendered":"More About Vocation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It amazes me that I can write something about my vocation in January and then lose it so fast.\u00a0 I see that telling my story as though god had designed it ushered in the <a href=\"https:\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=4210\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">days of grace<\/a>.\u00a0 Never saw that before.\u00a0 And the thing about waiting for the \u201cnext thing\u201d to come along.\u00a0 I certainly forgot about that.\u00a0 I would live so differently if I reminded myself of that every morning.\u00a0 Who said: \u201cGod comes to us disguised as our life\u201d?\u00a0 Pauline D\u2019Arcy, quoted by Richard Rohr in \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Breathing-Under-Water-Spirituality-Twelve\/dp\/1616361573\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Breathing Under Water<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Written in February 2014<\/p>\n<p>The story that really works for me is the one that says it was my vocation to build Neskaya, and right now I\u2019m doing just what god wants me to be and do.\u00a0 The other story, that doesn\u2019t work, is about how I don\u2019t deserve to live.\u00a0 I feel like I\u2019m caught and torn between the two of them.<\/p>\n<p>So tell the story again:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1964 &#8211; degree in Astronomy, Stonehenge, White Goddess, folk dance<br \/>\n1975 &#8211; Brunswick \u00a0 \u2014&gt;\u00a0 folk dance<br \/>\n1977 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u2014&gt; dream class\u00a0 \u2014&gt; trip to Callanish\u00a0 \u2014&gt; start book \u2014&gt; Center for Archaic Studies<br \/>\n1978 &#8211; meet Dana\u00a0 \u2014&gt; move to Franconia<br \/>\n1986 &#8211; publish book:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beverlywoods.net\/fhmbook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> The Feminine of History is Mystery<\/a><br \/>\n1988 &#8211; discover Sacred Circle Dance<br \/>\n1992-1996 \u00a0 build Neskaya<br \/>\n1998 &#8211; create\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/neskaya.com\/sacred-year\/dancing-sacred-calendar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dancing the Sacred Calendar<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It amazes me that I can write something about my vocation in January and then lose it so fast.\u00a0 I see that telling my story as though god had designed it ushered in the days of grace.\u00a0 Never saw that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=4405\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405","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=4405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}