Step One or The Blackbird
This morning I awoke dreaming of a blackbird whose wing was broken. I always loved the song by the Beatles and identified with the bird of sunken eyes and broken wing. My first year of college at University of Texas at Austin, it was cold and I was walking thru campus and one of the landscape trees caught my attention: it was exactly half dead. One half was alive and the other was dead branches. The sight of it stopped me in my tracks and I gazed at that tree for several long moments...I identified with the blighted tree. The avatar for this blog is a Blessed Virgin Mary called The Madonna of the Dry Tree. I was so happy when I found that she existed. Any Divine Mother of mine has to be barren and without fruit or child. [I dont' know why but I am having problems putting paragraphs in so I will use a different strategy]******************************************************************************************************************************************** I haven't w...