IT is a construct [George K], not in theory but in actuality: a commUNITY in the name of John, my former husband's middle name. He has been working specifically for the children, building hospitality, while I have been working to promote George's Business (IT). In my mind, this means that we are still wedded in the Great (and whole) Spirit of hospitality.
I am Ruth a woman who has fallen in with Stella, many women who use that word, NOW a given name, in and around The Family Worship Center in Rocky Ford, Colorado. One of them lives with me in Nava Manor and works at Arkansas Valley Community Center in La Junta.
I began writing this chapter of the story with Lee in 2005 on the summer solstice. Friends who had worked with us at CBR drove me to the funeral. We saw a cloud formation rising in the shape of a white buffalo above the chama. His family had been preoccupied -- his brother in grief, and others with inheriting property.
I awoke one morning before dawn. Death and trauma weighed heavily on a heart that had been broken even as I was born in the Fall of 1942. Conceived and born in Love, this made no sense.
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