The Bringer

Mina just flipped open her brother Matthew Wood's book "The Book of Herbal Wisdom" and a moment later gave a chuckle. She handed me the book and this is what I read:

"Whether we have a happy life or not is another issue. It is a "revolutionary act," as physician/clown Patch Adams likes to say. Happiness does not originate in the stick-in-the-mud boring material world to which we are born, but is interjected by surprise from another dimension. Humor, art, and true medicine come from this other/magical place. The contrary, clown, trickster, poet, artist, crazy person, shaman, physician, steals a fleck of light from that world and brings it to this world, where it works its liberating, healing, happy-making, regenerating ferment. The bringer is wounded in the process." - Matthew Wood

I never once told anyone from whom I was collecting wishes the dark place from which I was reaching out to lift them up and give them hope in the drawing out of their dreams. This time, I kept death and pain out of the equation, until, that is, the tangible physical pain became too great. I am glad of that and happy with what I accomplished, for others as well as for myself. - RSM