Signs and Symbols of an Accident-Induced Sabbatical
Time [=Chronos/Saturn] Clipping Cupid's Wing s By Pierre Mignard I - Denver Art Museum, Public Domain [Author’s Note: I began working on this post in August, before my fingers were really ready to type, and I’m publishing it on the 9th anniversary of Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet’s (Thea’s) 9 October 2016 passing. I am, and will always remain, infinitely grateful for the gnosis she poured out freely from her soul, for her mentorship, and for all of the doors she opened in my consciousness.] On 25 May 2025 I tripped on a piece of old furniture while helping to declutter my family’s storage barn and shattered my left wrist—both ulna and radius—so badly that it required two ORIF (Open Reduction and Internal Fixation) surgeries and an internal K-wire. Thus I have been on an accident-induced sabbatical. Now, some four months later, I am well out of the trauma of it all, but still a long way to go before my thankfully non-dominant left arm is pain free and fully functional. Almost immediat...
