Engaged

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While living in Grand Forks

winter 1997,

I was sure

we were going

to have a big Flood.

Standard scientific forecasts

reassured otherwise.

Male knowledge

Head knowledge.

My knowing came

from the Feminine Intuitive Side

and it could not be dismissed.

I was not the only one.

Blizzards came and went.

Piles of snow deepened

amid the deep freeze

of North Dakota Winter.

From February on,

I went down

to the Red River daily,

and asked Her

to be my Teacher.

And yes,

we did have a Flood.

A Big Flood.

On this little Farm,

I am regularly in the Garden

with my Hands in the Soil

tending Plants.

The next stage

of my Living and Being 

has evolved.

I see myself as one on one,

as engaged

with each of those Plants,

with Soil,

with Earth,

with Creator.

And again,

I ask them to be my Teacher.

Always, I feel

the presence

of an expanding Circle

of my Dearest Friends.

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Glinda Crawford, 2011 

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