Thoughts inspired by reading THE STOLEN LIFE OF COLETTE MARCEAU

So what does one do when the file one has just finished writing disappears due to a careless deletion? One begins again…….

Today is a day of contemplation and introspection brought on by a book I am reading. THE STOLEN LIFE OF COLETTE MARCEAU by Kristin Harmel has taken me back to the Holocaust and also for some reason, the French Revolution. I was aware last night that my body was aching with tension as I was reading and I actually had to take some Tylenol to relieve that heaviness in my body.

It reminded me of attending THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK in 1959 at the Walnut Street Theater in Philadelphia. I was sixteen years old and went to the theater with a group of friends. When the wailing sirens permeated the walls of the theater as the Gestapo was about to arrest the Franks, I became extremely upset and had to leave the theater before the curtain came down. I could not explain my reaction and it was many years before I realized it may have been a “past life” experience.

I was born in January, 1943, having been on my spiritual journey that began in 1978, when I learned about past lives, not really connecting the possibility of my own. (No thoughts of Cleopatra or Marie Curie had I!) I also had a severe reaction while watching an old black and white movie of TALE OF TWO CITIES. The angry mob, the guillotine, Madame de Farge, all frightened me. I admit that I do not like horror films or stories where women(or men) are abused, so it may just be the violence or the abuse that is disturbing to me, but events of the past have shown me that we are living in dark times now and I am constantly aware of the impending other shoe hitting the ground.

Whatever “it” is, I am sensitive to danger and death. Witnessing the events of the past years has caused me to stay away from the daily television news I used to watch and focus on those who report the truth like Jessica Yellin or Robert Hubbell. I also continue to seek out writers like the inspirational Suleika Jouard or Maria Shriver for spiritual comfort and growth.

I have been looking for a collective of spiritually minded people who, like me, are holding the place for our country and the world to find peace, serenity, compassion and love. Chaos and undermining governments/democracy are destructive acts. I know that there was resolution after the Reign of Terror and I hope and pray that if history does indeed repeat itself, we will find renewed peace and serenity. Hungary is an example of that possibility.

Thank you for letting me share…..