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The Artist, the Alchemist and the Pioneer at Work in My Garden
These archetypes will help me create a new life in my octopus’s oasis marooned at times alone under a sea of humanity
Stream of Consciousness Introduction
Friends, followers, and subscribers, hello, it’s me! I’m back again. I linked the Todd Rundgren song because as I began to draft the intro to this essay in my mind, I thought of these lyrics and got goosebumps and a little teary-eyed:
Hello, it’s me
I’ve thought about us for a long long time
I’m not sure why I had that reaction but that I did means I needed to include the link to the song. Someone reading this will be glad that I did. I have experienced this before, for example, even though it had no readily apparent connection, I embedded Soul Asylum’s Runaway Train in this rant against spiritual listicles that instruct without sharing a piece of the writer and said with respect to the song, “This lovely song just hit my Spotify and judging by the emotional energy surging through me and the sounds emanating from my soul I just know I am supposed to share it with you now and am not going to think about the why,” and one reader commented to me privately that it was exactly the song she needed hear at that…
