Magnolia Dances
A Poetic Diary of Unrequited Love
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Magnolia Dances…a poetic diary of unrequited love
Grief, heart shattering, soul searching, dark nights alone, grief.
Grief has a strange way of making one whole; whole in ways that all the happiness in the world cannot ever do for one. And, wholeness only comes after grief is faced with all of the self/Self. If one avoids the process, the gold of wholeness is never achieved.
I did not know in 2001, while I was falling in love, that I would eventually go on a journey to wholeness; all knew, at that time, was that I was not loved in return, that I could never be loved in return, and there was nothing I could do to change this.
For some reason, at that point in my life, either due to age, or circumstance, I decided to walk on the rock filled path of grief to see where it might lead me. What resulted was wholeness, and “Magnolia Dances”, a poetic diary of unrequited love.
For if we never face love in all of its glory and devastation, but only fear love, and run from it, who are we after all? The heart can only grow with tears that are allowed to fall…falling in love, magnolia dancing, flying home.
Jenenne Castor-Thompson holds a BS from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico and a MA from Holy Names University in Oakland, California. Ms. Castor-Thompson spent her career in health care management and consulting in various health-care institutions in the western United States. She is now writing full-time. She lives in southwestern New Mexico among her cactus and her stones and is an aficionado of the sky and the sunsets.
More information about Ms. Castor-Thompson can be found at her web site:
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Grief, heart shattering, soul searching, dark nights alone, grief. Grief has a strange way of making one whole; whole in ways that all the happiness in the world cannot ever do for one. And, wholeness only comes after grief is faced with all of the self/Self. If one avoids the process, the gold of wholeness is never achieved. I did not know in 2001, while I was falling in love, that I would eventually go on a journey to wholeness; all I knew, at that time, was that I was not loved in return, that I could never be loved in return, and there was nothing I could do to change this. For some reason, at that point in my life, either due to age, or circumstance, I decided to walk on the rock filled path of grief to see where it might lead me. What resulted was wholeness, and Magnolia Dances, a poetic diary of unrequited love. For if we never face love in all of its glory and devastation, but only fear love, and run from it, who are we after all? The heart can only grow with tears that are allowed to fall...falling in love, magnolia dancing, flying home.
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About the Author
Jenenne Castor-Thompson is the author of 5 novels, two volumes of poetry and one non-fiction book. She lives in northern California where she waits each year for the return of the Monarch butterfly.
Castor-Thompson has a B.S. from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico and an M.A. from Holy Names University in Oakland, California.
More information about Castor-Thompson can be found at her web site: www.jenenne.com
Castor-Thompson is not now and has never been affiliated with the Golden Sufi Center in northern California.