The Ripening

Reynier Llanes Marquez

Many years ago my beloved teacher, the extraordinarily gifted healer Rosalyn Bruyere, told us a story about what happened when she went to learn from the Hopi Indians. They told her if she wanted to heal she must learn to kill. They instructed her to kill a deer and skin it. She followed their instruction. These four decades later I never forgot that story. Loved ones die, our children struggle and suffer, we ourselves know we will have to leave behind all we’ve…