The Art of Inheriting Secrets

by Barbara O'Neal

Something earthy and green and fertile bloomed between us, twining like the vines through the windows of Rosemere Priory.

"Earthy and green and fertile" ooh that is brilliant. I felt like I could taste it, smell it... I was, in the moment that I read this, inside that moment. A part of what I was reading. I love, love, loved it! Blooming and twining like vines like the building. Yes, giving life the the building, the grounds, the history and the connection to the moment they existed in right now. I wanted to stay there with them. I could connect it time that I felt love growing in my own life.

“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water,”

I think every one of us has had that moment... a recurring theme in our lives where we want to be stagnant for some reason in our mind or our heart, but we know that we can't be. It's so hard to make that first step to successfully crossing the water, let alone formulating a full plan to what comes after that step.

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.’

It's strange how you can feel this way when you meet people. Some people feel instantly like you know them. Deeply and truly. Whether you love them as a partner or as a friend, there is an instant familiarity. What a great way to put this into words. Speaking to my feelings, my own life and memories. How often have you felt that instant connection yourself. That deep understanding of another person you couldn't understand because it came so quickly and easily?

I slept a solid eleven hours, falling far away into the other lands where the sleep spirits knitted me back together.

How many times I too have felt like there must have been a type of "sleep spirits" that graciously found the way to my heart, my body, and my mind during the time I lie in bed. Somehow scraping me back together. Picking up the little pieces of my broken psyche, my shattered heart and aching body. To read Barbara O'Neal put it this way really connected for me. I could literally visualize it in my mind. I will always have that now...