Dark Transformations (Tale of the Golden Locust)

No one, on that warm summer's day, could have foretold the orgy of wanton death and destruction, which was set on a collision course towards the peaceful kingdom of Mercia. A small group; thrown together through fate. Tagan, a Prince of Mercia, Mortimer, an old man who has the look of a wizard, Faith, a fairy, Aaron and Tim, two brothers who look completely unlike each other, and Death, a spirit who's help seemed to be conditional. These are all that stand between the earth's survival and the ravishes of lizard like creatures who's only function is to destroy.

Slowly the group begin to find away to fight back.

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Gradually I came to see them as a kindness I could give to myself instead of a source of shame. If there was any abiding thread, any golden string out of the opaque maze, it was learning to hold myself with compassion.

Dark Transformations (Tale of the Golden Locust)

I learned to hold myself like a screaming infant, and give to myself as to a starved child. I simply had no choice. It was that or my life. There were moments when I fervently wished I was dead, that some disease would come and take me, some accident wipe me out. Half my life is spiritual practice, I said to a teacher recently. Yet the amazing thing is that, on emerging from this spectacularly dysfunctional period, I have the space for ample practice, and to write and sing and teach.

When I had no choice but to surrender utterly—to accept that I might be unable to pay rent next month, even that I might not heal—I started to see that I could trust life. I started to relax into it. And life took me by the hands and began to dance. Sometimes that work is in our own minds, other times in our communities; if we are listening, we may discover an organic rhythm between these two dimensions. Most often we do not have to seek it out, this work. Instead, it reveals itself to us—sometimes subtly, like a dove alighting on an outstretched arm; sometimes a tornado that sweeps us up and drops us somewhere else entirely.

I want others to discover the gifts hidden in these dark nights, gifts they will in turn deliver to a world that sorely needs them. I want, in short, for others to suffer less than I did. I still have to rest a lot, and I topple into adrenaline-charged emergency mode at the drop of a hat. But I am more resilient, and better at letting go, and it seems that my suffering has diminished in inverse proportion to the growth of these capacities.

Most days I am happy. I no longer need crisis to invoke change; the dance has slowed to a foxtrot. At some point, many of us will be broken by life, whether in ways obvious or hidden. If we stay soft, stay open, the heart will expand, the mind grow clear.

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Sometimes that love must be ferocious to wake us up. We are seeing this play out in the world today: Not only is there the individual experience of breakdown, but systems and institutions that we believed unshakeable are also beginning to crack. Ecosystems are changing before our eyes, and the scale of environmental loss is prodigious.

It can be terrifying to watch the dissolution of the things that we believe have kept us safe; excruciating to see the destruction of things that we love. Faced by these circumstances, it may take every ounce of will we possess not to collapse into fear or explode into rage. But even as the skies darken, there are considerable gifts. We are being offered a superb opportunity to develop the strength and wisdom we will need to rise to the occasion.

There is, I would venture, a greater story unfolding here, with a much wider arc—one that bends inexorably toward the light. Notes from an Activist , and her essays, fiction, and poetry have appeared in numerous publications. She teaches Creative Writing at Mills College and Stanford, and is also a performing and recording singer-songwriter.

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