*HOZOJI: "ho-zah-ji" ..that deeply stilling feeling one has when something so beautiful has been seen, heard, or realized (at a spirit level) that they are struck with total, silencing AWE, and can scarcely breathe. (Native American, Navajo word)........................................................................................
.....my life experience runs a gamut: large wild family, wilder Mom died young, (that's an old cracked photo of her in my family pix) teenager of the hippie 60's, runaway, once a brush dweller; ex-tree planter, factory worker, medical secretary. Once a student of Taoism, Buddhism, then Hinduism, now 'Pagan on the side of Christ' in the words of my beloved mentor, Jackson Browne; mother x 3, whistler, singer of old Latin Cathedral music, prayer, grandmother x 3; seeker, kayaker, lover of human effort.....