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Allies in corporeal form who have walked with me on my recent journeys
include persons who are family, and others who I hold as family, many of whom have heard me talk about the others, but most
of whom have not met each other. Allow me to make brief introductions here so that you all can get to know one another
a little bit.
WHITEWOLF WALKSBETWEEN has been instrumental
in my process of awakening as a spirit-becoming-medicine. The founder of Crossroads Learning Center, WhiteWolf
and I met 11 years ago when I became involved with the Center, and I feel like he has been not only a close and trusted friend
through many difficult trials, but also my teacher in formal and informal ways ever since. I am deeply grateful to him
for accepting my request that he facilitate my initiation, and much appreciative for the open sharing of his home at WolfDance
that made the entire context of the initiation a truly moving and meaningful experience.
MORGAN MARTIN has been an inspiration and example
to me as a healing presence and friend since 1995 when I started working fulltime at Bastyr. In these last 9 years,
I have learned much from Morgan about being compassionate without losing strength, making truthful appraisals that serve the
greatest good, and maintaining energetic sensitivity in the midst of challenging events with difficult people.
ALEX KIRBY and I have known each other for more than 10 years, having met at
Crossroads Learning Center. For a while, he was my massage therapist, until his interests changed direction and
moved into pursuing the life of a hermit monk. Although our spiritual paths diverge, Alex is full of interesting and
scholarly information about many religious traditions.
LEAH GREEN impressed me so much as a psychotherapist and educator at Antioch
University back in 1989 when I took her counseling skills course, that I was inspired to change my intention of becoming a
public relations worker in a healthcare setting to becoming a therapist myself. I can only hope that my teaching
and counseling live up to her standard of excellence.
CONSTANCE PERENYI and I met on her first morning of work at Bastyr,
and I knew immediately that we were kindred spirits. Although we don't see each other often, it's as if no time has
passed when we do and we easily pick up where we left off. An artist, writer, and environmentalist, Constance challenges
me to broaden my own perspectives on how I engage with life.
PATRICE LEWIS has been a model to me for
how to walk softly in the world, unobtrusively asking the right questions that help oneself and others awaken to deeper consciousness.
We met as students at Antioch, and graduated together in 1990 from the Whole Systems Design program, and went on to co-teach
a student mastery course at Griffin College. Through the years we've shared joys and sorrows, trials and triumphs.
DANIA CURRY-PEARSON, my beautiful daughter,
is one of those rare creatures: a real Washington native. A student at Seattle Central Community College this
year, Dania is rapidly experiencing the many diversities of ways of being and learning that are possible when we open ourselves
to the world beyond our communities of origin. Because I am an adopted child, it is fascinating to see the mysterious
unfolding of familial patterns such as interest in writing, music, and psychology playing out in her life and know that she
gets those from me when I can't know where I get them from. I am very grateful for her growing interest
in my eclectic form of spirituality and her support for my recent initiation.
CHRIS CURRY PEARSON, my fascinating son, always has
an avant garde take on the world, making it both educational and amusing to engage in conversation with him. Through
his associations with several Northwest Native American Natives that came about from some Boy Scout experiences, he has
been privilieged to learn first hand some of the customs and language that most outsiders never get a chance to know.
Chris seems to be somewhat following my footsteps in his spiritual questioning, and I am glad for him that he is doing so.
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