Consuelo Meux offered a session on May 26.
Consuelo Meux, Ph.D. is a Certified Creativity Coach and published author with a doctorate in Human and Organization Systems. As a former Peace Corps Volunteer in Cameroon, Africa she worked with women in food cooperatives and has traveled broadly working in education and nonprofit organizations. She studied with Patricia Schneider while attending summer sessions at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California. Consuelo is an Amherst Writers & Artists Affiliate, certified to lead workshops in the AWA method, as described in Writing Alone & With Others by Pat Schneider, Oxford University Press.
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by Therese McGinn
Her visit to the mountain gorillas in Rwanda was an astonishing – and spiritual – experience. That it was spiritual, when she came to that recognition well after her first visit, surprised her.
Getting to the gorillas was a feat in itself. You climb a volcano in a small group, with two guides who are close, personal friends of the gorillas. The visit them daily and know them individually, they know their likes and dislikes and how to read their moods. Odds are pretty good that they’ll find them each day because they saw them the day before and know their favorite hangouts.
The first band of mountain gorillas she saw looked for all the world like a group of parent and kids at the playground. Over there, the twins are teasing their grandpa. Over there, the mama’s nursing her baby. On the monkey bar tree, the older brother is showing off for his little sister.
Her immediate thought: We are so closely related. How can anyone not believe in evolution? That ’science’ observation stayed with her, and over time it evolved to include something else. She felt a spiritual connection to these enormous, graceful, beauteous beings. And she realized that science and spirituality are perhaps not so far removed from each other, after all.
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by Therese McGinn
The women who came before me – I don’t think they knew it was an option not to get up in the morning and work like plow horses all day every day until they fell into bed, the last of everyone. There were six and four and eight kids to cook for and feed and shop for and clean clothes for and make Communion dresses for. It’s a wonder it didn’t come crashing down more often, more deeply, in more families.
But these women, they rose every morning and did it all again.
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