I wonder how much time I’ve spent watching other people live their lives; how much time I’ve spent feeling separate or apart. I wonder how many of us are dulled by the faux reality of constant life-streaming. The preoccupation and fascination with what others are doing – and the unconscious addiction to packaging our own lives for others to see – is it dimming the vibrancy, the creativity, the … [Read more...] about Life Streaming
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Be Wild //
Be wild in your own mind Be free in your own skin Fear not what you might find On the journey deep within Because everything you are Is everything you have And everything you have Is what you have to give The deep well of your soul Has no bottom and no top The eternal flow of loving-kindness Is only yours to stop … [Read more...] about Be Wild //
Do Not Despair
Following up my last post, “Do Not Look Away,” I say to all of you – do not despair. Yes, brace yourself for daily pain and punches to the gut because now is no time to get numb. Feel all the feels. But do not succumb to the seductive nature of despair. We are a nation waking up. Our neutrality has been our most flagrant complicity in the circumstances of today. The greatest gift, if we … [Read more...] about Do Not Despair
Do Not Look Away
Drumpf won. The fractures and fissures in our nation’s foundation have been brought into the glaring daylight, no longer to be denied or ignorantly overlooked. The skeletons we knew were there – some of us more than others – are out of the closets. This is a moment of bringing the terrible shadows and the dark underbelly of this country into the light. Of bringing the suffering and the … [Read more...] about Do Not Look Away
***RISE UP***
The matriarchy, the mamas, the feminine, the hearth, the womb, the earth. Women are walking the streets today knowing we are empowering sorely needed healing in this country. We meet eyes, strangers in the street, in a knowing sisterhood - the wisdom we share has no words. What we have set in motion today is like a silent embrace. A hallelujah. WE could only know this feeling. WE could only … [Read more...] about ***RISE UP***