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November 2009 
Thank you everyone!
Posted on Sep 1st, 2009
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Dryad
Dryad
Dear Incredible People,
I am full of awe, surprise, amazement, happiness and a flood of tears. I did not expect to find anything here for my birthday. I came over to send a message to ask someone something and look what I found!! I have been absent more than present during the last year. It is wonderful to know that you have not forgotten me. There is no gathering of souls anywhere, that has the special kind of giving care that is found here at Gaia. I still - always - think of it as my home.
As this (no doubt) will be a little long, I’m going to put it at my Blog as well. I can’t seem to ever find anything worth Bloging about, but this definitely qualifies.
I’ve had a very difficult year in all the aspects of person-hood - physical, emotional, spiritual, intellectual and the fluff that keeps getting in my ear. There are so many things at Gaia I would love to participate in - first and foremost would be get the cobwebs out of PLAY POD. It may still happen, who knows. I don’t seem to be getting past just survival many days. I am writing quite a bit and have been doing a little painting. At some point there will be a self-pressed poetry book and a web site of my paintings. In the works . . . someday I hope to have some part of “the works” come to completion.
My personal life is in a state of limbo and I’m not sure what happens there next either. I suspect this is not particularly a strange thing to be happening at my age. One of the things I love about Gaia, is that it has taught me that I am not alone in my feelings. I may be very different than Jane Q. Public, but with a group where my dynamics are very similar - they are many things I can learn from what others have experienced.
My eldest daughter leaves me TOMORROW. After four years working as a Literary Specialist and Dramaturg at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, she is going to the University of Washington in Seattle to teach Shakespeare and finish her PhD. She goes from “Stage” to “Page” a bit of a jump, but she is very dedicated to bringing theatre to the next generation and this seems to her like a good way to proceed from here. She already has a cute little apartment in one of Seattle’s “Neighborhoods” and is very excited. I’ve been a little west of devastated - as this was the last of my children and they were all to be “quite gone.” While she was away at college and in England doing the Masters and PhD prep, I still had one at home. That one is a rising Junior at the University of Oregon. At the last moment he announced that he wasn’t going back to school this year. He is at the point where he must declare a major and get ready to do what he is going to do and he hasn’t got a clue what that may be. So he is taking a year off. He will work and read a lot - possibly travel if he lands a job in which he can make some bank. I am frozen with conflicted emotions. I know a break part way through can be a good thing. I should have done it myself. Yet . . . I also know a lot of folks who went away and didn’t go back. I want him in college, but something inside me is relieved and so happy to know he will be here. They won’t all be gone after all. I know this is just postponing the inevitable, but . . .
I had another major-type surgery earlier this month and ended up getting an infection that won’t go away. It takes everything out of you and I didn’t have that much to take! I AM still hopeful that when I get this cleared up I can begin working toward more mobility. I’m not ready for the Boston Marathon, but I am at a point where I play a mean game of Pooh Sticks!
Thank you, everyone . . . Thank you so much. Especially you, Starseed my dear, who never forgets me and is a blessing to my life. You ALL will never know how much this means to me.
Much Love ~
Dryad
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dearest! it's great to hear how your life has been going… sometimes it is so challenging. but we are here for you whenever you turn this way. hugs
You are loved dear one.
Be well and know that you are loved and so appreciated.
Dryad, sending you lots of healing energy in the playful way that you brought to Gaia. I've seen kids very centered after that break year and am glad that at least one child will still be with you. All the best to your eldest daughter as she begins this new time in her life.
Dear Dryad,
I am honored to call you friend and to have hosted the surprise get together in your honor!
You have shared so much of yourself with us here on Zaadz/Gaia and it is with such joy and gratitude that I honor and celebrate YOU!
Thank you for finding your way to my blog and I am thrilled that it was a surprise…I don't get to pull that off very often!
I read your response with tear-filled eyes and have felt your challenges over the months…just remember that you are LOVED and NOT FORGOTTEN!
Continuing to send LOVE, LIGHT HEALING ENERGY AND THE VIOLET FLAME!
Big Gentle Hugs,
Starseed
Much Love and Blessings to you!
hugs Dryad, sending playful energy and healing swirling all around and thru you, know you are loved and I am soooooo glad you were able to come out and play for a little bit :)
Well, my dear, Happy Birthday! I'm a little late, but not too short, and I still have my dollar, as I've not been past the candy store, yet. What should I get us? Salt water taffy? Butterscotch? Jelly beans?
Best wishes to your lovely Lezly (I probably didn't spell that right!) She has such a wonderful presence! Oh, you are a lucky woman! :)
Your other tribulations sound, unfortunately, so, so familiar. Danita had very similar trials this year. Unfortunately, she is still going through what she must, and it just iz what it iz, you know? I'm sure you do. Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? See, even we, the self-improved, resort to doggerel when trying to express the inexpressible resistance to what iz. But in all honesty, there STILL might be a way toward a better life. We are STILL on the path. We STILL love each other, and we are still your friends who hope to meet you again in better times. For Danita, we are always on the beach in Florence.
So who knows what this year will bring? Surely joys, surely sorrows, growth and self-indulgence, screw-ups and golden hours. Maybe this year finds our roads winding through sweet valleys of grasses. But, you know, it's so weird. I typed “sweat valleys of grasses.” :) LOL