Our numbers dwindle. Both Alix and Margret have left us. But we came together last Saturday to celebrate Margret: Robert and Marsha Clark, Steve Freier and Kathleen Jacoby, and I. Kathleen and Steve were good to invite us to their home in San Mateo. Food in hand we sat down to think about Margret, to tell stories, and to laugh. Kathleen remembered to set a place for Margret in our circle. We brought out various things to sit on her empty chair: gifts that Margret gave us. I put the small green Moldovite stone she gave me and blessed for me many years ago. As I passed it around Marsha remembered Margret talking about the green energy. It's what Hildegard of Bingen described as the greening.
We've lost Margret physically. Somehow she seems more alive inside me than before. She always threatened to haunt me... Welcome, friendly spirits!
