Remembering Lorna Roberts: A Shaman’s Last Journey
On Saturday, October 13, 2001, a memorial service was held to honor the memory of Lorna Roberts, a shaman and one of Diane’s most beloved friends. The following essay is Diane’s tribute to that friendship. Lorna had been diagnosed with breast cancer four years ago in 1997. She had a lumpectomy. Her children begged her to have a mastectomy. She had a mastectomy. Then she said, “No more.” She was a shaman. She’d been initiated into the South American lineage in...
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I was born in the United States, but never went to church on Easter. The circumstances hadn’t appeared and I wasn’t ready. This past Saturday I flew out to Lawrence, Kansas to be with my good friend Lorna for her birthday, for Easter, and for the “allies” program. Lorna and I met in 1988 over dog shit. Her dog Boogie kept shitting in front of my back door at Patchin Place. At last, one day I scooped up the shit with a trowel, knocked on Lorna’s back door, and said,...
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