11-30-03
REMEMBER YOUR ESSENCE
In my journal on this day in ’88 I was thinking of Long John Cardinal, the redbird who came and dined with me for five years. As I fed him I told him, “If you die, don’t go off in the woods and make me wonder what happened to you. Die right here on my patio.” And one cold morning I went out and there he was, dead at the foot of my patio fence.
I was missing him so I wrote him this note:
I miss you, Long John
but you left your essence
in me.
On these cold and wet winter morns
I’m glad you’re not cold
there in Cardinal Heaven.
You are nice and warm
in my mind, always.
All things have an essence. Each person has a personality and people who have had pets will tell you each one has it’s own unique essence. Each dog has its own dogality, each cat has its own catality, and each bird has its own birdality.
Always remember, you never lose the essence of anything you love. It transmits a portion of itself directly to your essence.
One of the best spiritual books I have ever read is Paul Williams’ REMEMBER YOUR ESSENCE. He was the daddy of “Crawdaddy,” the first rock and roll magazine in America but he wrote a spiritual classic that you can read a hundred times and still see new gems of truth.
I was pleased to find he has a website (www.paulwilliams.com) so you could buy one for someone you know who is on a search for truth and meaning. You may want to buy one for yourself first to make sure you share my love for it.
Remember your essence and know that it will live on and on in everyone you love long after you have gone the way of Long John Cardinal.
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You may want to check out Dalton’s website (www.daltonroberts.com) or do a Google search on “Dalton Roberts.” There were things there that surprised him and he’s known himself a long time!
