GRÁSTA I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wandering awed about on a splintered wreck I've come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air, whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty beats and shines not in its imperfections but overwhelmingly in spite of them, under the wind-rent clouds, upstream and down. Simone Weil says simply: "Let us love the country of here below. It is real; it offers resistance to love." "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" ~ Annie Dillard Member Notes Grásta was dedicated into the group and the Caer Avalon tradition on May 18/00. She received her Tree initiation on April 20/02 and her Well initiation on March 6/04. The Wheel turned again on June 9/05 when Grásta journeyed through the Fire and was initiated as a member of the Tribe priesthood. < Back to the Tribe Members © Caer Avalon