I used to do this, the self I was Used to do this The selves I no longer am Nor understand. - Maggie Nelson I don’t know about you, but these days I feel almost unrecognizable to myself. There has been a profound amount of letting go, change, and growth...
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing. -Arundhati Roy Friction is necessary in any growth cycle. As we have just passed through the doorway into spring in the northern hemisphere, you can feel nature...
Every horse should be able to run full speed, and know the beauty and wonder of it’s strength. -hafiz These words by Hafiz fill me with a kind of longing, how wonderful it would feel to be able to run at full speed when we are a year into...
“How Did the rose Ever open its heart And give to this world All its Beauty? It felt the encouragement of light Against its Being. Otherwise, We all remain Too Frightened” - Hafez I have always found February to be a most difficult month. I was pondering the why of this as I was preparing this months newsletter....
We get so busy trying to be a certain way that we tend to forget what we essentially are at any given moment. We are alive. We are part of creation, we exist on one sacred breath. We are sacred. We are all one energy....
Seeds need the darkness to germinate. Before they can grow into food that nourishes us there is a time of quiet and stillness. This is much like the energy of the Winter solstice. Use this dark time as an opportunity to plant the metaphorical “seeds”...
The Uses of Sorrow (In my sleep I dreamed this poem) Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift. -Mary Oliver Here we are, the last energy update of what has been a most incredibly...
Timing is a funny thing. You know that feeling when everything flows? Like a dam that has broken and allows you float effortlessly through your day week or years. The lights— all green, people—friendly! You make the bus or plane connection, have that perfect conversation...
Every time I sit to write this article I feel at odds. I suppose if that isn’t an indication of the energy afoot these days nothing is! Personally I feel the energy of this month could be soothing. The leaves are turning colours, the days...
O true lover, with how much compassion, with how much gentleness, with how much delight, with how much favour, and with the extraordinary signs of love you cure these wounds, which with the same darts, of this same love you have caused! -Theresa of Avila Once, at a retreat in the dry Arizonan desert, I...