connected circles of life

this morning i am in a new place. these nice folks welcomed me to stay in their guest room with my very own comfortable bed. this morning they made us old fashioned oatmeal with fruit and yogurt. it felt nice to receive hospitality similar to that which is extended by the twelve tribes. i feel this is a very important demonstration of God's love through our lives. 

i got these pictures yesterday with the phone camera of Iris while at River School Farm. the ring had been left by someone in the community room where i have been sleeping for the past few weeks. the house i call the Lab. i felt like it had been left there for me, and started wearing it. it has felt really good, a comfort in a way. i have never seen a ring like this before and i find it beautiful. 

the hammock is in the little courtyard outside of the office, below the home apartment of Iris and Tom, who i visited and taught to make sourdough bread.

so this morning i decided to look into the meaning of the three rings and also the seed of life. i've been wanting to find out more about interpretations and history of the seed of life, and it is certainly closely related to this ring of three rings i have adopted. so here are two links i found that you might also find interesting:

http://www.liv.ac.uk/~spmr02/rings/

http://www.crystalinks.com/floweroflife.html

i noted in reading about the borromean rings that if one is removed the other two will fall apart. this is a very important aspect of the rings. another way of joining three rings is in the way that this ring on my finger is made. if one ring is removed the other two are still linked. this changes the symbolic meaning, and perhaps implies a shortcoming of the maker and wearer. or is it just different? it can be helpful in our current circumstances for two to be strong in unity while the other is separate. perhaps this is how we are meant to work. we can be strong as three united, and still strong as two, while the other works alone at times. i found here that this variation of the borromean rings is called 'torus link'. http://www.liv.ac.uk/~spmr02/rings/types.html

the seed of life is like these three rings, but with seven! from seven to infinity, we are all connected in relationship. just in different ways... it makes a difference how we are linked. this connects with a saying that came to me while on the hoop tour back in 2011-12:

everything is perfect as it is and there are so many different ways we can do things.