Grassroots
Moo
www.enabling.org/grassroots/
1 Sea Midi
2 Torrey 3
Melusina 4 Thalassa
5 Note 6
Coral 7 Creation 8
Emergence
...If the earthly no longer knows
your name,
Whisper to the silent earth: I'm flowing.
To the flashing water say: I am.
-Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus
Torrey
a mermaid who swims in deep waters
and skims the crest of the waves,
and seeks sanctuary
in the underwater treasures of Thalassa.
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Melusina (mermaid)
Her hair as golden as the sun,
Her eyes show secrets, known to none.
Her skin adorned by shells and things
I do not know the song she sings.
Her confidence, though silent speaks
Her soul powerful, never weak
Her love for life lies within
And with each day, she's born again.
copyright 1997 by Carole Robinson robinson@mcn.org
http://www.eliki.com/realms/kat/poetry.html
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Thalassa (Greek for sea), home to Torrey, the mermaid,
is an underwater cavern with sparkling
turquoise waters
where fish swim gracefully through tranquil
currents.
Here, you glide through luminous caves and grottoes,
SIT on a
Seaweed Mat or Puffy Fish Mattress...
and LOOK at the Wave Cave,
Sponge Spa, Cavern Tavern, Ethel Mer-man's
Comedy Club, Reef
of Belief, Billow Pillow, Shell Dell,
Driftwood Den, and Golden Grotto.
Several sea-leaf poems lie scattered on the ocean
bottom,
drenched with the inky blue script
of a squid's pen.
Their titles read: Lament, Lament2,
Poem-for-the-Earthbound,
and Seachanty. Among them is a Note to Visitors.
Nearby, above a subaquatic window, a Stalactite
message board
descends from the cavern's roof, illuminated
by a Ray of Light.....
You may LOOK or EXAMINE objects and interior rooms.
You may also SIT Seaweed Mat, SIT Puffy Fish
Mattress,
STAND, PET CoCo, READ Note, READ (Name
of Note)
on Stalactite, and TACK (Name for Your Note)
on Stalactite.
READ Note to Visitors
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Note to Visitors
To my Mer-Friends -
Please feel free to explore my underwater domain while I am frolicking
with dolphins and attending water ballet lessons. You may LOOK at
the rooms,
read sea poetry and leave a note for me on the Stalactite message
board....
But be wary of sidestroking through the Coral Cliffs without fully
experiencing
Thalassa first. You will need the pearls of wisdom and the golden
booty before you dare
to scale that rocky terrain or peer down into the abyss.... But
do not be afraid!....
There are wonders here, and most of them are also inside of you....
love from Torrey the Mermaid
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Coral Cliffs
The Coral Cliffs are the underwater mountains near
Thalassa where creatures
of the Cyberdeep face the dark Abysses of
their hidden selves and seek
to scale the highest Elevations below the sea's
surface.
Here, they confront the challenges they most fear,
and the deep Sea Crawlers
which most threaten them. Yet in the process
they gain Self and Soul....
You are invited to LOOK, scale the peaks and descend
the abysses, overcoming your inner and outer obstacles,
as they are reflected in the Cyberwaters.
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from Torrey's Earthly Creator, June 14, 1997
With the help of Bob, Ted, and Cleo at Grassroots, I visited the
Moo
several times, began developing Thalassa, and felt a self that I
hadn't expressed
in several years - my poetic, mythical self - re-emerge.
For days, my imagination was stimulated by ideas for Thalassa....Soon,
I had
created an evocative undersea home - with rooms reflecting various
facets
of my personal and spiritual quest and playful sense of humor.
And I began to create Coral Cliffs, adjoining Thalassa.
My experience felt similar to Jungian sandplay (play therapy for
adults) - following
inner guidance while positioning figurines in the sand,
and telling stories about them,
personal myths ....deep internal processes that I had not previously
articulated.
Everything I've created in GrassRoots is likewise expressing deeper
layers of my psyche.
At this stage in my life, I AM a mermaid...... swimming deep beneath
the surface
and resisting the demands and necessities of earthly reality.
But after describing the warm, safe, hospitable interiors of
Thalassa, I felt compelled
to create adjoining Coral Cliffs, which I realize now are the menacing
cliffs
of earthly demands which pull at me, causing me much unrest.
I had to create my sanctuary first, a refuge of joy and creative
delight....but once
I was at home there, I became aware of the cliffs that border Thalassa,
that
rise up to the surface of the waves, and stretch toward the earthly
shore -
the cliffs that I must scale in order to return to earth again.....
With a swish of her tail and a splash, Torrey the
mermaid
descends into Thalassa
from Torrey's Earthly Creator, July 12, 1997
Not until my turn in our online group, when I openly expressed my
conflicts, fears,
pain and anger, as well as appreciations, was I able
to fully describe Coral Cliffs
and begin to encounter the Sea Crawlers lurking in its dark abysses.
Perhaps I needed the full attention of my cybercompanions - to verbalize
my struggles
and feel heard, understood and supported - in order to tolerate
ways in which I do not
feel heard, understood or supported in tackling the issues that
are facing me.
The Coral Cliffs are not quite as threatening to me now - although
I know that on
the other side are currents leading to shore, to the earthly terrain
from which
I have found solace in cyberspace and cybersea....
I only touch the earth tentatively, but already find new friends
there, delights that
lead me to fear the shore less....and a deeper self-acceptance that
will help me
begin tackling those earthly demands which are not delightful.
I need to feel ok playing with dolphins and starfish... to value
Thalassa for its own sake,
not begrudging myself the tasks I neglect when I frolic underseas.
But I cannot
fully enjoy my marine companions or sea successes when bound
by fear of
the Coral Cliffs or the steps I must take on earth, away from water......
Here I celebrate creativity and companionship; I glide and surf the
breaking waves... But
I know that they can only soothe and sustain me if I also don legs
underwater, and
learn to sidestroke, then crawl, then eventually to walk more firmly
on land.....
With a swish of her tail and a splash, Torrey ascends
through the water....
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In the crystal stream of ocean
Fishes glide with tranquil motion,
Float in life that's sorrow free;
Yet your throngs, in splendor moving,
Show your festive spirit, proving
How much more than these ye be.
Goethe, Faust
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Will Torrey swim to shore,
and embrace the earth as well as the sea?
Torrey
Melusina Thalassa
Note Coral Creation
Emergence Links
CREDITS:
Water02.jpg background from Mermaid's
Rest
Lure.gif and animated fish5.gif from The
Mermaid's Gallery
Mermaid.gif by Howard Pyle, at Mermaid's
Net
Worldsm.gif, Mermaid Tales Around the World, at Mermaid's
Net
Blustery Sea, seablus.gif, cropped, originally BlusterySea.gif,
copyright 1997 by Valan Evers, QuantumNetwork
Neptune's Treasure, here entitled neptune4.gif, cropped, taken from
a photograph from the Mermaid
Collection by Jason Gold,
copyright 1994 by Jason Gregory
Gold. All rights reserved.
Disney Midi music "Under the Sea" The Little Mermaid, Disney
Midi Music
OTHER MERMAID LINKS
Where
Mermaids Dwell SeaTails
Online
Sirenophilia:
Mermaids Indelible
Ink Mermaids
Mermaid
Clip Art Anderson's
Little Mermaid Water
Spirit Legends
WATER AND FISH LINKS
MOO RESOURCES
Thalassa, http://www.webwinds.com/thalassa/torrey.htm
copyright 1997 by
Torrey.
Since April 3, 1997,
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This site expresses my experience in the Net-Psy Simgroup
mailing
list, which included chats at Grassroots Moo and Moo-room
creation.
Created July 12, 1997.