September 08, 2025

I think we all are, more or less, part of the dream awaiting realization. We are, in a sense, "a band of brothers and sisters," bringing each other forth, waking each other up, being what each other needs for the process of becoming who we are, doing what is ours to do.

We are one with one another to the extent that we realize that and live it out, the more consciously, the better.

This has been brought to light with me in conjunction with the serving staff in two restaurants my wife and I frequent regularly. We have become family over time, say three years.
I would not be uncomfortable with the term "Coven." I would be happy to be a part of a Coven with those people. Cooking up life together, and being what each other needs over the course of our individual life together.

Sewing circles develop a similar pattern of concern and caring around the circle, and poker/bridge players, golf players... It is natural, automatic, an expression of who we are, what we need.

We do not do well alone. We are built for communion, community. Where we are close enough to know and care about one another, yet far enough apart to maintain our unique perspective, our specialties, our gifts, our Self.

I had two aunts, long dead now, who were sisters, one of whom did all the thinking/leading/directing for both of they. They dressed alike and did the same things together. One was the shadow of the other, which is not what I have in mind, or consider to be healthy. We each have to have our own way to being becoming who we are, what we are about. And we do that best in conjoint relationships with others that are close enough to be helpful and distant enough to be safe places to allow for our individual growth over time.

Which is the "whole point of being alive": Becoming who we are, doing what is ours to do.

The Dream is dreaming/realizing itself through us. We are waking up, realizing, knowing, doing, becoming, being who we are doing what is called for in each situation as it arises, as only we can, the way only we can do/be it. And, thanks to each other, this becomes possible for us all.