Story Info
Story Info
Charlotte Regennas
Little Torch Key, FL
2018
Type of Wounded Place
Story & Experience
At 4:30 on June 16th, 2018, I revisited my property on Little Torch Key, which was devastated by Hurricane Irma. I sat on my dock, the sole remaining structure and gathered my thoughts. My focus of rebuilding on this property allowed me to envision a new house, yet to be financed and built. I noticed how Nature was thriving in the waters below the dock, in the air above, on the razed ground, and absorbed the energy of the sun. I felt the sacredness of this place where I held many spiritual rituals. Then, I began a new ritual, releasing what needed to go, as I cut each length of saffron colored yarn: grief, pain, loss, lack of confidence, blame, guilt, anger, depression, feelings of lack, powerlessness, confusion, loneliness, and so on. I sat amid my somehow salvaged lawn furniture, writing positive expressions to be brought forth on this land. After threading the yarn through small colored papers, my tags of manifestation were attached to the foliage adjoining the dock: Joy, Beauty, Stability, Love, Clarity, Forgiveness, Wisdom, Meditative Solitude, Strength, Abundance, Prosperity, Friendship, Spirituality. Finally, I gazed through the decorated leaves and took a picture of where it would all happen. So might it be. Knowing others were in Earth Exchanges in many corners of the world raised the creative vibrations. I express gratitude to all who participated in Radical Joy for Hard Times.
At 4:30 on June 16th, 2018, I revisited my property on Little Torch Key, which was devastated by Hurricane Irma. I sat on my dock, the sole remaining structure and gathered my thoughts. My focus of rebuilding on this property allowed me to envision a new house, yet to be financed and built. I noticed how Nature was thriving in the waters below the dock, in the air above, on the razed ground, and absorbed the energy of the sun. I felt the sacredness of this place where I held many spiritual rituals. Then, I began a new ritual, releasing what needed to go, as I cut each length of saffron colored yarn: grief, pain, loss, lack of confidence, blame, guilt, anger, depression, feelings of lack, powerlessness, confusion, loneliness, and so on. I sat amid my somehow salvaged lawn furniture, writing positive expressions to be brought forth on this land. After threading the yarn through small colored papers, my tags of manifestation were attached to the foliage adjoining the dock: Joy, Beauty, Stability, Love, Clarity, Forgiveness, Wisdom, Meditative Solitude, Strength, Abundance, Prosperity, Friendship, Spirituality. Finally, I gazed through the decorated leaves and took a picture of where it would all happen. So might it be. Knowing others were in Earth Exchanges in many corners of the world raised the creative vibrations. I express gratitude to all who participated in Radical Joy for Hard Times.
Little Torch Key, FL
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