August 6th
Today is the commemoration of 70 years of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, a disaster that I hope will never be done again. I feel the weight
all day long. I am sure my parents feel it as well and the friends I meet
today. A sunny hot day in Bamberg. A
friend of study times in Bamberg who is a vivid hobby gardener and I are
watering apple trees and I admire here plot in the intercultural garden. The
project is at the Regnitz River 20 minutes from the city center on the compound
of a yarn factory where I did a work study 30 years ago cutting string of
spindles 8 hours of day in shifts and learn and write about the workers who
were working there decades. For lunch I stroll to the Rose garden, meeting my
spiritual mentor Anne from 25 years ago from my theology times, a lively, warm
hearted and open minded professional and simply a good mensch. She made church
for many people a better place. We are talking about the possibility to offer
Feldenkrais for clerical personal. I would be delighted to return to the place
of my first intense studies and inner journeys, to work with persons on their
awareness, balance, physical movement habits with the joy, playfulness and
gentleness of this approach! For the tea hour in the afternoon I am invited at
my Biblical literature professor, where I wrote my first thesis about feminist
biblical approaches (of 182 pages!) and who trained me in critical and
systematic thinking. It is great to have talks about biblical literature and research,
an area that was once so important for me – my life took me quite a bit away
from that activity. But when I think about it: therapeutic evaluations and
looking for essence is still my daily occupation!
Sitting by my holy linden tree, a last visit before I leave
Germany again. Sunset in full colors.
I am sad to leave the area. The same time thankful. 3 months
sabbatical. What will the future be?
I made connections to work with Feldenkrais also in Germany.
But now a start in the US is the next step.
I wanted unlearn hectic and narrow approach of
rehabilitation and make place for variation, play, heart connections, grounding
myself. An ongoing learning process.
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