Archive for October, 2008

Coming home to Monkey Valley – October

Monday, October 13th, 2008

I actually come home to Monkey Valley quite often. Usually, I make two trips a month to Vancouver, which means I get to come home to Monkey Valley twice a month. The previous post gives some background on why I was away so much before the September homecoming. Originally, I began ...

Coming home to Monkey Valley – September

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

On Wednesday, September 10, I came back to Monkey Valley. This might not seem remarkable to you, but it was a very exciting day for me. You see, in November 2006 I went to Vancouver expecting to return to Monkey Valley in a few days. But there was a big snow ...

The mystery of the West

Monday, October 6th, 2008

The West asks us: Who am I? What in me is dying? It is the place of oncoming darkness, endings, mystery, shadow, subconscious, dreams and visions, soul, self-discovery, introspection, introversion, transition, descent into the depths of the psyche, and inner power. Here we wrestle with adolescence and grow toward individuation and our adult-self. Here ...

Wild women run in the dark!

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

The West is the place of darkness, black, the night. I wonder if night owls enjoy hanging out in the West part of the wheel, and early birds prefer the East. For just about as long as I've been running (since I quit smoking for the first successful time—lasting three years—in ...