The Free Radical

Ever since the summer solstice, when Dutch Creek flooded its banks, I’ve noticed that the River’s voice has remained gruff and loud. Each day as I approach the river valley I’m surprised by its still-excited tone.

In many, many places it has rerouted itself. As a result, much of the landscape it now devours is rough and pristine, not the smooth channels of decades of quiet deliberation as before. The River explains:

“There is a brand new emotional landscape within the Collective. New channels needed to be cut… away from old programs. Though all rivers inexorably flow to the very same ancient destination, how they get there has been upgraded. The pathways are exciting and new.

“Although the net result will be a marked reduction in erosive strife, there remains a period of unsettlement. New feelings, as experiments in creativity, require a period of adjustment in order to find their new course. Consequently, expect more than a few blustering voices to churn and mull over their own confusion… as the River’s Sacred Journey finally begins to settle down into the valleys and fissures of our most Ancient Purpose here– reawakened.

“Rest assured that deep pools of Silence underlie the cacophonous volley of empty words. You would do well to languish in the slow back-eddying pools of your deepest feelings/knowings, rather than careening along the surface of raw and frayed nerves.

“The newness will pass, and you will finally discern the very same River from whence you so long ago came… but now it flows ever-so-surely directly to its own Source. Do not lose yourselves in surface noise; dive below and swim…”

I can do that!