Feb. 24th Bearskin

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Permalink Reply by Deborah Jane Milton on February 26, 2010 at 10:09am

Last night's story, metaphorically, speaks directly to what we're needing to embrace as persons in a rapidly and unpredictably changing world. Wow - the soldier's loss of his soldiering job - really struck me with how many of us are losing our jobs, which in our modern, urban culture have typically been how we define ourselves...losing a job is so much more than losing a job and our willingness to undergo the "dirtiness" and "lowliness" of losing, for a moment or for seven years, who we think we are in order to come home to the awareness of our essence, our I AM consciousness is a powerful, insightful message for our time. a totally terrific tale and magic in its telling. Thank you thank you Danny and Martin and whomever else kept the lineage of this tale alive.

AND here is a really interesting synchronicity which happened the morning after. The tale deeply touched me. It's as if it's found a home in my bones, so yesterday morning when I unexpectedly took a brief walk with my daughter and just turned five year old granddaughter, it almost didn't surprise me when they announced that granddaughter had had a dream the night before. She's only five, remember, so it may have been the first time she reported a dream to her family. AND the dream...she's sitting on a bench and is startled by a huge bear behind her. In the dream her mother and big sister hide behind bushes, and she is left to confront the bear by herself. The bear gets huger and huger, towering above her, but she stands her ground and suddenly, the bear opens up, sheds its skin so to speak, and its bear head falls back and who should be inside but her father...Now isn't that quite remarkable?

Oh, Bear-sark - I like it. The man really became warrior and the fact that sark is not a familiar word to us invites questionning and thinking about the meaning.

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Permalink Reply by Brian Rohr on February 26, 2010 at 6:16pm

Thank you Deborah for sharing that dream your granddaughter had. It moved me deeply... and I am both surprised and not surprised at the synchronistic ways that the universe can play with us. Nor do I for a moment doubt the connection between a grandchild and her grandmother - more than just emotional and familial ties!

Blessings,
-Brian

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Permalink Reply by Deborah Jane Milton on March 2, 2010 at 7:13pm

Speaking of keeping the lineage of this tale alive, do you have a reference for Bear-sark? I would really like to be able to read it, soak it in, or listen to it again and again. We need a CD of YOU, Danny, with some of your favorite stories/myths. I bet it would sell like hotcakes!!!

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Deardorff on March 7, 2010 at 9:34pm

The story is in Grimm's and can be read online at http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm101.html
I haven't reached the point of making recorded stories available yet but hopefully this year we'll figure it out.
Thanks

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