Thursday, June 9, 2011

The Forest of Elon

If you are wondering about the title of my blog it comes from an experience I had this last winter.  I was home alone (which is a rare occasion!) listening to my favorite Celtic/Christian/Progressive Rock band, Iona.  Many of their CD's have lengthy instrumental songs that are very atmospheric and seem to transport you if you know what I mean.  The CD was Open Sky, songs of ascent I believe.....anyway, I was lying on the couch, closed my eyes and let the music wash over me.  I started having a vision so to speak, of a forest.  The trees were as big as redwood trees but were like oak trees, not pines.  I felt as if I knew this place well and missed it very much.  I suddenly said (whether out loud or in my mind I don't know)... ah...(happy sigh)... the forest of Elon.  I had never heard the word Elon in my life.  Some time later I decided to find out if this was an actual word so I googled it.  It is a Hebrew word meaning Oak tree!!  Whoah!  What are the odds?  Is this a memory of some place I had been in another life? I don't even think a forest like this has existed on earth....so on another planet?  I have always loved the forest.....maybe this is part of the reason, ha!

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