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Sabine Wilms, PhD's avatar

"In my life, in this moment, it feels like I’m on a surf board paddling through turbulence, out beyond the breakers, to the calmer waters where I might catch the big one." I love this and can see that you are right there, where you need to be. I am entering the turbulence, or maybe even just launching the surf board, and have much to learn from you. Just writing this for perspective, so you know how far you have come. And a quote from Joan Baez that really struck me on Monday, as I was reading news about Gaza, sat there crying watching the sunrise, then went to The Open Table soup kitchen, and shared so much love and laughter and a few good tears. "When I was working on “Diamonds & Rust” (1975), I was at a low point of my career and I made a decision that I was going to concentrate on music and quit globe-trotting for different issues. I realized that the music needed my time and attention if it was going to be any good. Learning to live with the state of the world’s a daily practice. Everything we do, we do against the backdrop of global warming and fascism. I never dreamed I’d live in a world this chaotic and discouraging, and I’m overwhelmed but I’m also a great believer in denial — I think that’s where you have to be in order to create, or have fun or dance — providing that we set aside a certain amount of time to come out of denial and actually do something to help." — Joan Baez

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Phoebe Barnard's avatar

And this is, I guess, the nature of the river of life ... the rocky rapids, the calm eddies, the confluences and occasionally the separations. We love, we lose, we feel a tearing of pain or loss and we pick ourselves up and learn to love and befriend again. I used to literally whitewater raft with these metaphors in mind. Also to toboggan down snowy volcanoes for the sheer thrill of it - and sometimes life can be a bit like that too, but hey! So glad to have come across you, Vicki xxxx

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