[Oe List ...] Salmon MORE on The Way Life Is

[William Salmon]

Burna --
    It's true, isn't it, that we really live on "the cusp" of life which is something like a "bridge" to no-where? For all of the dental work we endure there needs to be a "plaque" we receive to commemorate our endurance, or at least a "cap" to indicate the money we've spent. Now, there's something we can get our "gums" into. Eh?
       Thanks for sharing. Obviously, I've run out of metaphors to give this message some "bite.". Pastor Bill 
 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Burna Dunn 
  To: earthrise at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 10:17 AM
  Subject: [earthrise] The Way Life Is



  Vanity

  November 2008

  I’m having a tooth extracted.   This is a tooth that I have brushed and flossed and taken to the dentist for care on a regular basis even when I didn’t have dental insurance.  I envisioned breathing my last with this tooth, and I feel somewhat betrayed.  I endured a root canal so that the tooth and I could stay together and now some years later for no particular reason, I’m told, the tooth has become infected where the root canal was done.  This certainly isn’t the way I thought this partnership was going.

  After several conversations my options seem to be to do some really fancy footwork or resign myself to the passing away of all things.  Here’s where vanity comes in.  I picture myself, with a full set of my own teeth, having many more years of productive and useful life doing more to support refugees and immigrants and disempowered native Americans.  I feel weak and diminished when I think of doing these things without The Tooth.  I feel unequal to those with all their own teeth.  Nevertheless I’ve called, I’ve set the appointment and into the dustbin of history it is, at least for this one tooth or so I thought.

  December 2008

  I still have the tooth.  After all the drama and several additional consultations, preserving what I have seems to be the course of wisdom.  So now tucked away in the back of my mouth is one expensive bit of dental work and no guarantees.  Just more chances to take a relationship to my ageing.  

  I’m Burna L. Dunn, Imaginal Educator, Bread Baker, and Pianist.  Grateful for the Institute and the Order and Colleagues from near and far.








  Burna L. Dunn
  ELT/TA Project Director
  Spring Institute
  1610 Emerson St.
  Denver, Co 80218
  303-863-0188
  bdunn at springinstitute.org







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