{"id":7533,"date":"2022-10-18T15:07:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T19:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=7533"},"modified":"2022-10-18T15:07:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T19:07:07","slug":"what-is-wanting-to-find-expression-through-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=7533","title":{"rendered":"What is Wanting to Find Expression Through You?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the last few months I’ve been having a pretty hard time. \u00a0First was dealing with low thyroid<\/a>, then I had a bad fall and my ribs are still hurting from that. \u00a0In fact, I’ve had a hard time since COVID started. \u00a0Lockdown triggered my early trauma of being left alone when I was a baby, and the social distancing didn’t help. \u00a0I went through a period of terror which turned out to be younger parts of me<\/a>, and my therapist was able to help me. \u00a0When I first came to Kendal, it was because I needed the support of regular meals being offered and people around all the time. Eventually I began to be comfortable with ordinary life<\/a> in this community, and I was able to lower my anti-depression and anti-anxiety medications. But when COVID started I had to raise them again, especially to help with the terror. So things have been pretty tough for a couple of years. That’s why starting to feel good again was such a big deal.<\/p>\n

My memory is that I read the DailyGood on “What Is Wanting to Find Expression Through You?”<\/a>\u00a0and I immediately asked myself the question and what came was “Teach Astronomy,” and I started feeling better right away. So I went back through my journal trying to find the entry where I described that process only to discover that it had happened over a number of days. That original DailyGood was published on October 1, so it took me at least two weeks to go through the process.<\/p>\n

Actually, I did immediately know it was Astronomy that wanted to find expression through me. \u00a0I started talking to people about it, and my energy and enthusiasm increased. \u00a0That’s<\/span> when I started feeling better. \u00a0I began thinking about how I would teach. \u00a0What seemed most workable to me was to do something similar to the class in Observational Astronomy I had done for SLL in the 1980’s, but not for credit. \u00a0And to do it here at Kendal instead of trying to do it through OSHER<\/a>. Then I realized that I didn’t want to bother with the more recent topics like Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton, but just to do the video of the Sun Dagger<\/a> and my audiovisual presentation<\/a>, followed by a talk on Stonehenge, and then have star walks on clear nights.<\/p>\n

It’s true that I have been feeling much better for what feels like a couple of weeks, but my journal entries suggest that it was more gradual. I find this fascinating. It’s not the first time I’ve found discrepancies between my memory and what I actually wrote at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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