"Beauty and the Beast"
I have been thinking a lot about space lately; not "outer" space, but our spaces through which we walk every day. The spaces we consider "ours": our personal space, our work space, our home space, our sacred space. More accurately, I have lately had a heightened awareness around the points in time our individual spaces intersect. These may be the times we invite someone new into our space, or these may be the times we feel someone is infringing on our space. And, then, I am forced to question, is it really "my" space, or is it just an illusion of ownership? Whether invited in or not, when our spaces intersect, it can leave us feeling a bit vulnerable. Not surprisingly, during this time, I was handed the following passage by Joseph Campbell in "The Power of Myth," in which he speaks of having a sacred place: "This is an absolute necessity for anybody today. You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know w...