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RE: How I Creatively Support My Mental Health
I read this a few days ago. I had loaded it while literally at a mountain peak in New Mexico with service and read it without service in the valley below. You definitely made me cry with your words. As mountains do, I was reassessing and looking at my life and wondering at my actions, impact and being in the world... how my soul was playing out. Your words hit me like a ton of bricks and gave me a lot of hope and encouragement. Thank you. Thank you for being you and for being here. You’re a very special person. We’ve just come out of the mountains today and I’m feeling that reintegration knowing that the people surrounding me, who are really here with me, are the ones to walk with. Thanks for being here!! 💙😘 I’m so beyond touched!
Thank you for this. I am completely awash in emotion just reading this and don't even know what to say. I am so glad that you've taken the time you needed to just be in the mountains.
On another note: I missed you! I was so happy to see your name pop up again today. I was just reading a book about sacred places in native north America and for some reason I kept thinking of you while I read through it.
❤️❤️❤️ big warm hugs!! Yeah! I am definitely drawn toward sacred places- I’m curious where you were reading about! XO!
It was the manitou springs in Colorado "place of gathering" that my mind fluttered over to you when reading although when I picked up this book I also thought of you. I found it at a flea market in Saskatchewan - it was the only thing I bought when I was there.
It's this amazing network of twenty six mineral fountains. A fascinating story. I'm stuck in the kitchen but I'll happily tell you more about it tomorrow!
I am VERY interested, sounds wondrous! Enjoy your kitchen time and I look forward to hearing more about it at your convenience! I am so fascinated and intrigued, even drawn, toward things like this... ✨✨
Any person/tribe that came in peace was welcome to stay there. It was a respected place of peace and healing. Many tribes made an annual pilgrimage to this site, making spiritual offerings. The waters were named after a great spirit Manitou by the Ute tribe. There are also caves above these springs that howl and moan and sounding like the voice of a great spirit.
I can close my eyes and picture what it would have been like to stand there and feel all of this energy and peace.
Sadly, upon further reading I discovered that it became a popular tourist destination at some point and would you believe they've capped the springs and made fountains. Its so sad when they go and destroy the natural ambiance. That said I am sure much of it is still magnificent and some of that energy must remain.