Darlene McPeek
Darlene McPeek (known as peacefultrees and seal swimming) was born in Aurora, Minnesota and lives in North Texas. She has lived in Noordwijk aan Zee, Holland, where she enjoyed swimming like a seal in the cold water of the North Sea. Darlene considers Noordwijk aan Zee her spiritual home.
Darlene comes to OM Times with years of experience in editing, copy editing, writing and research. She has been an Assistant Editor for Going Dutch magazine of the American Women’s Club of the Hague, an Assistant Editor of the Albany Law Review, as well as an English teacher and research associate. Darlene has a BA in English from the University of Texas at Arlington and a JD in International Law from Albany Law School of Union University.
Aside from writing in her journal, Darlene enjoys meditating next to the pond daily, among the cherry trees and oaks. She finds joy in sharing love with all creatures, including people, trees, plants, animals and our smaller friends. Darlene loves to write short stories and poems, draw, paint and sculpt.
One of her favorite prose pieces is the essay, “History,” of the First Series, from Essays, by Ralph Waldo Emerson:
“There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a part to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent.”
…This essay says to me that we are all one. Even before this concept of oneness was known to me on a conscious level, I have loved this essay, as I suppose it was speaking to that universal part of me, which did not yet have a name. Now, happily, it does.
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