A Rite of Spring

HOW MANY TIMES DO WE RECOVER ?

I start looking forward to Spring a bit before Autumn arrives. There is a bear in me. There’s more rebirth in the air than usual for me. Dis-ease and illness are potent reminders of my mortality. I don’t find it easy to flow with illness, finding plenty of ways to add insult to illness. Not good with feeling weak and vulnerable. Worse about asking or accepting help. Somehow shame finds it’s way into my system along with illness. Tasks don’t get done, phone calls/emails/meetings/hanging out just doesn’t happen. Most of it is unavoidable, just a part of the process. Such things affect people around me. Some recoveries take longer and seem harder than others. Sometimes these ’mortality checks’ pack a mean strike.

Anyway, Spring is here, I’m on the mend, very ready to return to health. A Neil Young tune caught my ear, put into words some things that need saying to people in my life. If you are reading this, you are one of them. I’ve shortened the chorus.

So...........

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FALLING OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH

I just want to thank you
For all of the things you’ve done
I’m thinking about you
I just want to send my love
I send my best to you
That’s my message of love
For all the things you did
I can never thank you enough

Feel like I’m falling
Falling off the face of the earth
Falling off the face of the earth
(Falling)
Feel like I’m falling
Falling off the face of the earth
Falling off the face of the earth

Oh...

I just want to tell you
You sure mean a lot to me
It may sound simple
But you are the world to me
It’s such a precious thing
The time we share together
I must apologize
For the troubled times

Feel like I’m falling
Falling off the face of the earth
Feel like I’m falling
Falling off the face of the earth
Falling off the face of the earth