insideness

“They drew a line that shut me out,
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout!
But love and I had the wit to win
We drew a circle and brought them in.”   Edwin Markham 

Yep, that pretty well sums up my experience with my birth family.  They might only be brought in within my heart, but perhaps that's the only place that matters.  

This past week, got an unexpected assist in that area by Reed Asplundh, who posted a youtube video of Mim & Mike up at Lach Pitcairn's summer house at Tonche, outside Woodstock, NY.  Wonderful opportunity to touch base with Karen & Scott, Whitney & Reynolds, Kerry (Mike & Mim aren't on facebook, to the best of my knowledge).  Heard back from Karen & Scott & even more than just a few words of acknowledgement from Whitney!  They are good kids & it makes me sad that we have so many unhappy barriers between us.  Joyful when there's connection!

Fascinating that the Markham poem begins in the first person, but ends in the third - "shut me out" and "we drew a circle."  Makes sense - the Divine was part of his action bringing them in.  The Divine always always always seeks conjunction, a sense of everyone being inside, enclosed within loving arms.  Is that cool, or what?!!