Reading and Reflection: The Panther, the Black Dog, and the Mystery of (Un)Becoming

Join me for an hour shaped by image, story, and transformation. We begin in the dim enclosure of Rainer Maria Rilke’s “The Panther,” where seeing becomes a kind of reckoning, and the question of how we break through our own inner cages begins to stir, followed by a reading of my personal response.
In the second half, we shift into storytelling with the ancient Native American tale of the Old Woman and the Black Dog, a story that moves like a shadow through memory, asking each listener: where do you stand within it, and what has it come to teach you?
Between poem and myth, observation and reflection, this gathering invites you to listen closely—until something shifts, then share thoughts and feelings.