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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.
Surviving is not the same as living ~ and the thirst that rises from our darkest moments is the compass that leads us home.
- What has tried to pull you under that actually left you with a deeper thirst?
- What is that thirst ~ even now ~ pointing you toward?
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And water has always received me.
There is warm water above you. Keep going.
I only know that at some point the river lost. And I didn’t.
The river didn’t just try to drown me. It showed me what I was thirsting for.
And sometimes, honesty is the first kind of healing.
Surviving is not the same as living.
The thirst that rises from our darkest moments is the compass that leads us home.
This teaching closes Passage Two of The Well Being of Water: Surrender to Self, a lyric memoir in thirteen passages by Amal Lana.