Their falling-out had been terrible: so much so that when the woman who had brought her into the Old Ways died, she did not attend her funeral.
She knew, immediately, that this had been a colossal mistake, that by cherishing her anger over doing right, she had torn a rent in the fabric of being.
But what was there to be done?
“How did you know Hilary?”
It's the kind of question one asks after funerals.
Her answer surprises me.
“Actually, I didn't know her,” she says.
The woman tells me the story. She tells me that, ever since, when she hears of a pagan elder's death, she has made it a priority to attend the funeral.
Call it reweaving.
A rent in the fabric of being can never be unmade.
No: but it can be repaired.
“For every trespass,” says AMHA elder Elisheva Nesher, “there is a way to repair or undo the damage” (50).
Our responsibility is to find it.
Elisheva Nesher (2015) Lot Casting: Divination of the Hebrew Tribes. Elisheva Nesher