Joanna Macy wrote:
“Consider what happens to a bottle of water when it is left in the freezer. As it cools down, there is a steady, continuous change in its temperature.
The water won’t change much in appearance until it begins to get near the critical threshold of its freezing point. Then, as it passes this, an extraordinary process happens.
Tiny crystals form, and when they do, other crystals form around those crystals, until there is a mass movement of crystallization in the water that rapidly changes state from liquid to solid. This is discontinuous change.
With discontinuous change, a threshold is crossed where rather than just more of the same happening, something different occurs. There’s a jump to a new level, an opening to a new set of possibilities.
We might think it impossible that a small amount of water could crack something as hard as glass, but as the ice expands, it breaks the bottle.“
Goodbye dear fellow traveler, our brilliant @coyote
You have cracked the bottle and broken free to the ultimate metamorphosis.
Gratitude and blessings for allowing us the great privilege of being with you for one tiny droplet of time in this both very personal, but often courageously public journey.
We will never forget you. You are and always will be, a deep part of each of us.
💜🕊💜
it occurred to me that he passed on the night of the Flower Blood Moon Eclipse. Somehow, that seems significant.
I thought the same thing. I know just enough about astrology to get myself confused, but I'm going to look into it.
@gbs What a beautiful vision and message. We will send the messages in good time.
@michele-b Dear Michele, it is so nice to have you back tonight after so long. Thank you for such a meaningful message. Coyote read Joanna Macy, who was one of my teachers, and he incorporated some of her concepts into his writings. Did you know that, or was your post a beautiful connection with Coyote?
From the poet Hafiz:
"I have come into this world to see this: all creatures hold hands as we pass through this miraculous existence we share on the way to even a greater being of soul, a being of just ecstatic light, forever entwined and at play with Him."
Coyote, you are that being of ecstatic light now.
@bluebelle Thank you for your words and for Hafiz's words.
That was truly beautiful. That made me cry. The cracking of the bottle. Just beautiful. Thank you for sharing that.
To Coyotes family I want to say he was a gift to our community.We will miss him very much.
My hope is that he is flying free and feels our love.
His username always made me smile.
To his family-many thoughts are with you in your time of loss.
@jeanne-mayell Thank you for letting us know of Coyote’s passing. He was mature beyond his years and saw the world in a unique way that gave all of us hope and a new perspective on life and the universe. I am glad that his physical suffering is at an end but I have no doubt that his soul is alive and well. He was a cherished member of this community and will be missed very much. I send my most profound condolences to his family and friends during their time of mourning and healing.
It is still difficult to process this great and powerful emotions on hearing about Coyote today.
Deep feelings of which many you also have felt. Feelings which are so very difficult to express in written form, though I know Coyote would have done so in a profound and eloquent way.
Sometimes the best way I can describe a feeling is through music.
Adagio for Strings is one of the most exquisite pieces I have ever heard and over the past few years I have noticed that when I think of it, when it repeatedly pops into my head or I feel a strong pull to listen to the piece, it frequently means someone I know or admire is about to pass away.
A few nights ago, with the knowledge that Coyote would not be with us for much longer, I felt compelled to play my favorite rendition of it by The Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. As I sat on the couch listening to the melody, I found the music flow through me and I began "conducting" the piece. It was as if I was in my own little world. My hands seemed to move on their own accord and my heart was filled with love, a sorrowful joy ( is that even a thing?) and a warming light. I smiled and thought of Coyote smiling and rising higher and higher, floating back to earth and then rising higher and higher again. Just like the notes of the song.
I knew somehow he was with me in his in-between state, joining along. I felt his spirit, a warmth and joy joining in as I conducted, filling me with a deep beauty beyond describing.
I am so happy he can hear beautiful music once again and experience all the wonders of our world . I have no doubt Coyote will be sharing many messages with us over time. I am so grateful he found our forum and joined our tribe.
Samuel Barber wrote Adagio for Strings at the age of 26.
All of Coyote's insightful writings occurred before is 27th Birthday.
Synchroncity.
Coyote, you have left your mark upon the world and we are the better for it.
Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAoLJ8GbA4Y
@lovendures that music was beautiful and cathartic. It hit a note of truth for me. And even the most painful feelings can be beautiful if they are truthfully expressed.