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Pulled by the Current
“The river didn’t just try to drown me. It showed me what I was thirsting for.”
At sixteen, the Kern River in spring flood nearly takes her. The hot springs above it receive her.
Water teaches
Surviving is not the same as living ~ and the thirst that rises from our darkest moments is the compass that leads us home.
Reflection
- What has tried to pull you under that actually left you with a deeper thirst?
- What is that thirst ~ even now ~ pointing you toward?
This teaching closes Passage Two of Surrender to Self, a lyric memoir in thirteen passages by Amal Lana.