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Spirit Medicine: Road Trip! Continued
Perhaps that is one of the gifts of the road trip or pilgrimage, whether it's around the corner or overseas. It centers me and brings me to acceptance of wherever I am, yet helps me to connect at a deeper level with others, opens up vistas, and changes mirrors into windows. Sometimes despite best intentions, illness can be an ever-decreasing circuit of awareness, marked by survivalist sef-absorption. (And that intense self-care can be necessary at times too.) Instead of isolation, enjoying any measure of health seems to include a larger sense of harmonious connection, and being in touch with the greater rhythm and play of the universe. Although I can also experience this feeling at home, sometimes I need to get out of the house to experience it more vividly. "Road trip" is not just a cliché; it is a call to adventure, connection and encouragement of some kind. Whether in the passenger seat or behind the wheel, road trips and pilgrimages keep me growing and exploring this privileged journey called life.
Dear friends,
This is my last Spirit Medicine column. Speaking of pilgrimages and road trips, by the time this is published, I will have moved to be near Shands Hospital in Gainesville, Florida, where I am waiting for the call for a double-lung transplant. At this time, I need to focus all my energy on this positive new direction and phase of life. I will continue to write articles now and then when I can, and am working on finishing a book about cystic fibrosis in adulthood.
It is with pleasure that I ask you to welcome Catharine Martinet to Spirit Medicine. As a certified spiritual director, she will bring a fresh voice and perspective to the column and has already been an inspiration to me. Thanks Catharine, for being there, and thanks to all the readers who have been so caring and supportive over the years.
Enjoy the millennium everyone!
Lisa
The Breathing Room is very saddened to have to report that Lisa McDonough died on March 16, 2001. She was at Shands hospital awaiting a bilateral lung transplant. Lisa suffered a massive pulmonary hemmorage and died that morning. The Breathing Room joins USACFA in their grief at losing such a remarkable woman.
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