Ann

"Dissimilar things were fitted together to make something beautiful and whole."
--Nippawanock, ARAPAHOE

Sometimes we look at something close up and it appears to be ugly; but then we drop back and look at it as a whole and it is beautiful. If we look at an insect close up, it may be ugly, but if we drop back and look at the whole insect it becomes beautiful. We can drop back even more and observe what its role and purpose is, and the insect becomes even more beautiful and whole. How are we looking at ourselves? Are we focused on something ugly about ourselves, or are we dropping back and looking at ourselves as a whole? We all have purpose, and we are all beautiful.

Grandfather, today, let me see the beauty of the whole.

equus

Gestalt - the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts. That was what our first counsellor said to me and D, we pulled together instead of tearing apart.

Gestalt is a beautiful word and a wonderful thing to muse, from the strength of community to our own strength when we give recognition to all of our parts.