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July 2009 
Within a Gathering of Angels - A Thank You Message for a Miracle
Posted on Jul 27th, 2008
by 
Dryad
Dryad
Dearest Friends ~
I have been on a long, long sojourn of learning. I am learning patience. I am learning tenacity. I am learning the unimaginable resources of the human body and the human mind. I am learning the even more awe inspiring capacities of hearts and minds joined together in love.
I’ve been away from Gaia for quite a while. Part of that time I was unable to sit up. Some of the time I spent in Utah, with my mother, where I had a computer but no internet. Very quickly, the upshot on where I am physically is this: healing. Slower than I did at twenty, much slower than I would like, but I can feel it happening. I’ve had several more major falls, broken my arm, hurt my back again, learned how knees are really shock absorbers and ended up with bruises the size of continents that are really quite magnificent. I’ve also had a treatment for the nerves in my back that helped a great deal. It’s two steps forward and one step back, for sure, but I am stubbornly taking those two steps over and over. I'm working on goals of time management, perspective and closure.
I am very glad to be HOME.
What follows, below, is a Thank You Card, it is for everyone who has helped me so much on my healing journey. I had the thought that in trying to say ‘thank you’ for a gift that has changed my life, I must make something magnificent. I realized quite quickly that I couldn’t possibly ever have made anything that would in anyway touch what I had been given. How could anyone possibly ‘make’ something that would be adequate to say “Thank You” for a miracle?
Every day we open Gaia to see that we are a community that is changing the world. To some people this may mean the many big wonderful things the community does - making the entire world greener, more sustainable, more equitable, and better in so many ways. To me, this sentence means, first, that this community is changing me. In the year and a half I have been here I have changed from being very depressed, cynical and terminally despairing ~ to having hope again. I have hope in the essential kindness and goodness of people, because that is what I have seen and experienced here.
Granted, I don’t interact with all of Gaia or even many; my sphere is small. But I have found here more selfless giving, more genuine care and love for others than any where before in my life. In no school, church, social or service organization and certainly no Internet group have I ever found so much of the good in people. More wishing the best for each other, less envy and petty attention to self. I have seen the ME turn to WE. I’ve never really believed it possible before. I thought modern people were just too selfish. We are not everyone, but we are enough to show me that it is a possibility. Yes, perhaps, we can.
My very wise friend Jena said, “no one wants any thank you but for you to get well.” Yes. Very basic and undoubtably true. So that is what I am doing. Every day I walk on my Nordic Track, even when it hurts horribly. It always hurts. I drink my quota of water. I choke down all my vitamins. I meditate. I streatch. I hang upside down. I eat carefully and mindfully. And, perhaps the hardest for me, I am learning to move more slowly and carefully. In a few months there will be noticeable differences. In another year, I hope to deliver the real “Thank You Card,” Myself - healed and healthy.
I have many messages I need to answer and to pick up my Pod from the extremely capable hands that have been guiding it while I was gone. In a week, I am going to the Oregon Coast with several Gaia friends. I am so excited about that you would think I was five. I am going to post this now and then have a “Closure Parry.” Closure is one of my new goals and, you know me, I am always looking for a new reason to have a Party!
I do hope that my Grace Shower will continue and that everyone will feel welcome to come and receive as well as give. It is one of the most marvelous things I have ever experienced. Please come. Bring a friend. Yes, Amber, you can bring Boots.
Love & Blessings to all of you ~ Dryad
Edwina
Nexrweekend I will be heading out to the Oregon Coast to ~Meet~Greet~and Celebrate Retreat with several wonderful folks from Gaia. It should be incredible . . . as there never were people who knew so well how to PLAY, to PARTY, to CELEBRATE and GENERATE JOY. I think we should make this "Retreat Into the Real World" an annual affair. For all of you who will come next August, I promise you the REAL Thank You Card. Me: healed and healthy. I will work toward it diligently all year. Come to the Oregon Coast in August of 2009 and I make this solemn promise ~ I will dance. 
I have been on a long, long sojourn of learning. I am learning patience. I am learning tenacity. I am learning the unimaginable resources of the human body and the human mind. I am learning the even more awe inspiring capacities of hearts and minds joined together in love.
I’ve been away from Gaia for quite a while. Part of that time I was unable to sit up. Some of the time I spent in Utah, with my mother, where I had a computer but no internet. Very quickly, the upshot on where I am physically is this: healing. Slower than I did at twenty, much slower than I would like, but I can feel it happening. I’ve had several more major falls, broken my arm, hurt my back again, learned how knees are really shock absorbers and ended up with bruises the size of continents that are really quite magnificent. I’ve also had a treatment for the nerves in my back that helped a great deal. It’s two steps forward and one step back, for sure, but I am stubbornly taking those two steps over and over. I'm working on goals of time management, perspective and closure.
I am very glad to be HOME.
What follows, below, is a Thank You Card, it is for everyone who has helped me so much on my healing journey. I had the thought that in trying to say ‘thank you’ for a gift that has changed my life, I must make something magnificent. I realized quite quickly that I couldn’t possibly ever have made anything that would in anyway touch what I had been given. How could anyone possibly ‘make’ something that would be adequate to say “Thank You” for a miracle?
Every day we open Gaia to see that we are a community that is changing the world. To some people this may mean the many big wonderful things the community does - making the entire world greener, more sustainable, more equitable, and better in so many ways. To me, this sentence means, first, that this community is changing me. In the year and a half I have been here I have changed from being very depressed, cynical and terminally despairing ~ to having hope again. I have hope in the essential kindness and goodness of people, because that is what I have seen and experienced here.
Granted, I don’t interact with all of Gaia or even many; my sphere is small. But I have found here more selfless giving, more genuine care and love for others than any where before in my life. In no school, church, social or service organization and certainly no Internet group have I ever found so much of the good in people. More wishing the best for each other, less envy and petty attention to self. I have seen the ME turn to WE. I’ve never really believed it possible before. I thought modern people were just too selfish. We are not everyone, but we are enough to show me that it is a possibility. Yes, perhaps, we can.
My very wise friend Jena said, “no one wants any thank you but for you to get well.” Yes. Very basic and undoubtably true. So that is what I am doing. Every day I walk on my Nordic Track, even when it hurts horribly. It always hurts. I drink my quota of water. I choke down all my vitamins. I meditate. I streatch. I hang upside down. I eat carefully and mindfully. And, perhaps the hardest for me, I am learning to move more slowly and carefully. In a few months there will be noticeable differences. In another year, I hope to deliver the real “Thank You Card,” Myself - healed and healthy.
I have many messages I need to answer and to pick up my Pod from the extremely capable hands that have been guiding it while I was gone. In a week, I am going to the Oregon Coast with several Gaia friends. I am so excited about that you would think I was five. I am going to post this now and then have a “Closure Parry.” Closure is one of my new goals and, you know me, I am always looking for a new reason to have a Party!
I do hope that my Grace Shower will continue and that everyone will feel welcome to come and receive as well as give. It is one of the most marvelous things I have ever experienced. Please come. Bring a friend. Yes, Amber, you can bring Boots.
Love & Blessings to all of you ~ Dryad
Edwina
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Nexrweekend I will be heading out to the Oregon Coast to ~Meet~Greet~and Celebrate Retreat with several wonderful folks from Gaia. It should be incredible . . . as there never were people who knew so well how to PLAY, to PARTY, to CELEBRATE and GENERATE JOY. I think we should make this "Retreat Into the Real World" an annual affair. For all of you who will come next August, I promise you the REAL Thank You Card. Me: healed and healthy. I will work toward it diligently all year. Come to the Oregon Coast in August of 2009 and I make this solemn promise ~ I will dance.
Dancing - August 2009
WE ALL WILL DANCE !
Beach Dancing in Oregon
With love's light wings will I o'er-perch these walls;
For stony limits cannot hold love out
And what love can do that dares love attempt;
(Romeo & Juliet II, ii)
Gaia, Annual "Retreat Into the Real World"
Oregon Coast - 2010
2010
WE ARE SUCH STUFF AS DREAMS ARE MADE ON.
(The Tempest IV, i)
(The Tempest IV, i)
Access: PublicTagged with: Glad to be HOME, Learning, healing, Thank You Card, Miracles, Gaia - changing the world - changing me
Welcome HOME, Winnie!
Thank you for all this beautiful art & loving message. But above all,
Thank you for being such a wonderful loving touchstone for all of us here at Gaia.
You remind us to look to our grateful hearts.
We are grateful for you being up, producing this magical color, and for being with us in this
fantastic community.
Blessings and Love,
Ladybear XOX
Welcome Home, Love~
Oh My what a Onederful Gift you've given back…for the Me and We of it, the Oneness of it. We still continue to stand with you, to dance with you, to celebrate, pray, love, create magic and healing with you. We do this for you and for ourselves.
Me We All Be Blessed,
Thank You for this Gift that will keep on Giving,
I Love You and hold you in the Light of my Heart,
~Ariela~~<3
Thank you for sharing the power of Love.
Giving and receiving as One.
Amazing miracles.
You are so beautifu!
Beautiful
a great big hug..(())
What can I say with your overflowing love and gratitude - thank you for being you, Edwina, a most beautiful soul, angel, friend, being! A sparkling jewel! Hugs and blessings! Namaste`!
“retreat into the real world” is one of the best phrases ever and the perfect name for a festival. I think we should all have little Gaia festivals, all over the world, all called “retreat into the real world”. And we can all dance, in whatever way we dance, and I hope you don't wait to dance until next year because there are always parts that can dance even while other parts heal. Dancing can be gentle and small and sometimes maybe even no one else can see it, it's so subtle, but if we know it's there then it's dancing just the same.
I hope you're dancing all-ways.
Welcome home, sending more love and glad you are healing. You are beautiful , be gentle and patient with yourself you are perfect as you are, we all rejoice that you are making progress. I would love to know what flower you are, if you have a moment and your healyh allows, see my blog. Big Hugs.
Love you dear Winnie and hope to be there someday to hold your hands and look into your eyes and know that you are well - for then it seems all is well with the world. You truly bring us light and hope and love and I am so glad you are home again!
Dancing with you in my heart ~~~
Dearest: This was way over the top wonderful……….so much so that I am left speechless………but I wanted to send Love your way Dearest Friend……………Just marvelously beautiful……………………..
The magnificance, heart, and beauty here takes my breath away, I am blessed to be enhaling your words, pictures and love.
hugs and peaches,
Sprite
Thank you for healing, Winnie. Because when as you DO, YOU make Healing REAL!
Welcome back Winnie. May the healing continue unabated. We all love you.
This is a truly wonderful example of how one can express gratitude. Thanks for that. May the healing continue.
Blessings, David
you're beautiful, heal on, shine on, love on… we love you
Such is the power of LOVE in community! We have been touched by you, dearest Dryad, in so many ways. The gifts of love and healing swirl around you like comforting arms–and they swirl around all of us as well. In sending you healing light, we have brightened our own paths. Thank you for your thanks. Thank you for the experience of love in action. Thank you for your art, your vision, your determination, and your laughter in the face of adversity. I am looking forward to watching the sun set with you on the beach this summer, dear friend…and dancing down the moon with you next summer. See you soon!
Wow, you are such an incredibly blessed person. This is truly a fantastic thing!! I am so excited to see how many people truly love you.