Wonder Twin Crystals in the Circle

At the risk of sounding like I'm trying to sound smart or deeper than I am, I have decided to write a blog about what I have been noticing of late. This is my first attempt at not sounding like I'm trying not to sound as deep as I am afraid I might sound and alienate everyone. Ha.

What do I notice? Our lives are full of this weird, crazy parallel circle-ness – thing. Twins. Twins - - - parallels wandering between our waking, moving, tangible life and our deep desire, our spiritual life. Or better yet the twin to our tangible life may even be a sort of separate spiritual parallel world that is set apart but walking alongside us continually – often reaching through to hold our hand.

I didn't want to use the word parallel (yes, some, but not only the word "parallel") so I went to the visual thesaurus (http://www.visualthesaurus.com/ - check it out – and if you always find yourself at a loss for words, subscribe) to look for another word or set of words to use, to stir my brain. What I was looking for wasn't there so I went to the wonderful Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. And, courtesy of http://www.m-w.com/, I found "twins."

"twin." Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. 2009. http://www.merriam-webster.com (6 October 2009).

Function: noun

2: one of two persons or things closely related to or resembling each other
3: a compound crystal composed of two adjoining crystals or parts of crystals of the same kind that share a common plane of atoms

Ah, "closely related". Hmm, "crystals". Don't expect some meaningful diatribe on the woo-ha-ha power of crystals because that's not me. Except maybe when I was in 5^th grade, the wonder-filled connotation of "crystal" was the gasping expectation of growing them with my mother for a science fair project.

"twin." Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. 2009. http://www.merriam-webster.com (6 October 2009).

Function: verb

transitive verb 1: to bring together in close association :couple 2:duplicate, match

intransitive verb 1: to bring forth twins 2: to grow as a twin crystal

Twin (verb) = to couple or to bringing together close. Am I making this up – this parallel between what happens in our tangible, day to day and what is going on a spiritual realm? Does this closeness exist or do I, by drawing attention to what I perceive as a "close association", "bring together" the spirit twin and the real twin? Does the tangible experience somehow resemble my spirit life? Match. Duplicate. Am I growing this parallel circle-ness as a thin crystal?


Something else that I have stumbled upon: circles. There is some marriage here . . . between parallels (or 'twins') and circles. Before Augustine talked about history as if it marched forward, much of antiquity thought of history as cyclical. When I was doing some research on American Indian tales and folk stories I really started thinking about this circle-ness. I read an article Black Elk Speaks by John G Neihardt. In it he talked about circles, more precisely he identifies something that I have begun to suspect: "the power of the world always works in circle, and everything tries to be round." Now, much like this woo-ha-ha power about crystals, I don't think there is any mwa-ha-ha intrinsic power in circles. But have you noticed them? Think of: the globe, The Globe Theatre, stories (every good play has something of the beginning found in the end), seasons, ponds, lakes, the life of water (solid, liquid, gas, liquid, solid, liquid, etc), relationships, the stories of your life.


When I started thinking about writing this blog and about this – how our life is a series of parallels and circles OR parallel circles – I never imagined using the word "twin" but when I found it, I liked it. Now I see it relates to "crystal" - crystal being the definition that I feel in my soul that stands for this first blog, maybe even its spirit twin. I find that "crystal" has the most significance for me as I begin this blog. And here spins the circle – knowing it will pop-up – here it is protruding up from a memory of my 5^th grade science project growing crystals with my Mama. Ah, warmth. I remember the smile on my mom's face and her delight that I was excited about growing crystals.


Here I sit, in wonder. My spirit twin coming back to meet its tangible, now at full circle, a note from mom sent to me in August of this year (2009): "I know one day my daughter (baby) will be a famous author."


This first blog's to you, Mom. Full circle.