Ant Medicine

Well, it is quite literally the eleventh hour and the last day of the month and I am baffled for something to write about that is really on topic, so I have decided to see if digressing will help me move past the block to writing this month's article.

But what to digress about? It's ant season here. In native medicine traditions, ants are about patience. I feel remarkably impatient as the little stinkers crawl all over my computer. It is their season here. They will no doubt go away at some point soon. All things ebb and wane, come and go. Despite my resentment of it, I think I am becoming more patient about things. I am trusting the processes of life more than I ever have in the past. In an odd way, patience seems to make thing happen faster. Maybe.

June has been a big month for me. I've been forced out of my cocoon in a variety of ways. A few weeks back, I saw the SSD psychiatrist. They provided transportation for me and he was very kind so it was not as dreadful as I feared. I also had to go to the Social Services offices and get finger printed. They were very kind to me there too. Two journeys into unknown territory, driven by strangers. And I lived to tell about it.

On another front, a piece that I wrote has been published in a book called The Power of Positive People. What's really nifty about this is that some of the other contributors include Maya Angelou, Deepok Chopra, Bernie Siegel, Louise Haye and a number of other pretty impressive names. Way cool.

I've been leaving the house too... not going anywhere but sitting in the sun a little bit several times a week. It's a small victory, perhaps a meaningless one, but it is a change of pace. And I have a little color on my face. I keep waiting for my hair to get blonde again. Some illusions never die.

Photographer Corinne Botz ( http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/agor... ) came to visit me here in Callicoon. She wasn't happy with the photos she took in Narrowsburg and wanted to try again. Since her session with me, she has take photos of agoraphobics in the Chicago, New Jersey, New York City and a few other places. I gave her the name of a woman here in Callicoon who is profoundly agoraphobic and she came back and took photos of her and her family too. I'm hoping that sometime in the next month or so she will share some of them here so we can see how very normal we all are in our own abnormal way. I know she would still love volunteers, so just let me know - or contact her directly.

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