~ with only the quail and their babes for company ~

Friday 24 June 2005
4:15 p.m.

My babies are gone, out the door sharply at 5:30 a.m. after a quick breakfast of cold pizza. They should be arriving in Edmonton right about now so I expect a phone call any minute.

The last of my errand-running is almost done. Just walked back in the door after hitting the women's shelter dropoff, the post office to mail several packages I've been filling over the months, and the library for talking books to enliven my journey.

I brought home The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, Carlos Castenada's The Active Side of Infinity, and In the House of the Riddle Mother by Clarissa Pinkola Estés.

Diana, I wonder if this is the one you were thinking of when in our correspondence you mentioned the latter author. This set of tapes covers "common archetypal motifs in women's dreams." Here's some of what the jacket says: "A dream is like a riddle, Dr. Estés teaches. Once solved, it can provide a surprising answer to an unresolved question buried within the psyche...Based on 20 years of research in the field of Jungian psychology, this session is a dense, poetic storehouse of information about women, their dreams, and their destinies."

Maybe now I'll start looking forward to the long road home.

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