{"id":8035,"date":"2023-10-25T16:47:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T20:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=8035"},"modified":"2023-10-25T16:47:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T20:47:14","slug":"i-gave-my-life-energy-to-sacred-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=8035","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I gave my life energy to sacred meaning&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From my journal for October 18<\/p>\n<p>Feeling weird.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Woke up feeling weird.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Not sure I can describe it.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I don\u2019t think I have a fever,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>I found my thermometer, but will have to wait, because\u00a0I already had a drink.\u00a0At the thought that I might die I feel relief.<\/p>\n<p>A good session with Erica yesterday.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>She said of me \u201cthe deepest truth is I gave my life energy to sacred meaning.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Yes, I think that\u2019s really true.<\/p>\n<p>Thinking about \u201cgiving my life energy to sacred meaning.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Teaching folk dance\/sacred dance, teaching astronomy \u2014 we live in this astonishing universe.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>My search for truth and beauty, and trying to create them.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Building <a href=\"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=7335\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Neskaya<\/a>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Certainly my presentation of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?page_id=3786\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sacred Sites<\/a>.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I look at my angels on the wall, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=4343\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ben Shahn<\/a>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I think of the <a href=\"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?page_id=54\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dancer and Red Woman paintings<\/a>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I never was interested in money or status.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>All I ever wanted to do was share the things I love with people who wanted them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve given my life energy to sacred meaning.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I keep going back to look for it.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I think I\u2019ve got the words now.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I would never have been able to say it that way, but it feels exactly right as a description of what I have done with my life.<\/p>\n<p>Walking Mocha, thinking about dying, I feel so happy.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It must be because Erica named what I have done with my life.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I feel complete.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I feel finished.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Now my prayer is &#8220;Thy will be done.&#8221; 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