Advent, Waiting, and the Goo Phase
What happens when you combine the “like -it-or-not”, encapsulated, broken down to “goo”, anchored in for the long haul , stuck in the process and nowhere else to go sort-of existence…. with Advent? Advent’s very definition means waiting. First consider what is happening in the cocoon while we … daily secure our cremaster , continually weave night prayers into our breath , constantly reorient ourselves to our world from this upside-down position ? We enter the goo phase; a phase in the caterpillar’s process in which the imaginal cells overtake the old, ill-fitting, non-serving confines of the caterpillar’s silhouette. It is fascinating. Once overtaken by the imaginal cells, the caterpillar is broken down into a jell, a goo, that becomes reconstituted into the shape of the butterfly, sharing almost no molecular similarities with the former organism that it once was, the caterpillar. For some of us, being in the cocoon is a choice – we dive...