December update from Deb
Added 2018-12-16 01:18:51 +0000 UTC
With Thanksgiving over and more holidays coming, I’ve been thinking the holidays are life at warp speed. We have relatives from Iceland, escaping almost sunless days, and will soon join our daughter and family. There are gifts to wrap and mail and (a lot) of food to buy and prepare. Serenity is out of the question, but if I go to bed early I can channel an alternate universe: The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell. I see that I’ve read it before from the underlining and marginalia, but it feels new, and it’s the perfect archetypal antidote to the busyness of these days. I get a glimmer of something ancient, of people and patterns that have been with us for millennia—something mysterious and eternal in these short, dark days of the year. Tomorrow I will again plunge into life at full tilt. But at night Joseph Campbell reminds me that there is also a timeless realm.
