****TRIGGER WARNING. Mention of rape and suicidal ideation.****** Exhaustion. Grief. Anger. I don’t allow these to isolate or separate me from my own humanity or my body, or other Beings and the awareness of being Nature. This is my practice of aliveness, allowing, breathing, sensing, feeling, relating and finding who/what/where amplifies resonance in my body, […]
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The sun warm, the breeze cool, I prepare the yard in our city neighborhood for winter. I plant tulip bulbs that have multiplied from an Easter plant alongside the walkway leading up to our front porch. Alongside this walk, the Shasta daisies are dried and stalky. The hostas wilted, appear weary and sprawl towards the […]
Raise your hand if you went through menopause during the dumpster fire of the current times and recent past. Keep your hand raised if you want a parade ceremony with you riding comfortably in a a Mercedes convertible equipped with lovely, plush cushions, wearing yoga pants or any elastic waistband options with wine/kombucha/tea or […]
I am an insatiable learner. I don’t do memes or news bites. I have to read articles, do research and listen to really good investigative journalism like Joshua Johnson on NPR’s 1A, go deep with the spiritual inquiry offered by Rev angel Kyodo Williams, Adrianne Maree Brown and other Wisdom teachers of liberation and justice. […]
As a species, we love certainty. We want things to make sense, for life to be orderly, to follow our well laid out plans. Many of us take it personally when things go awry, from being stuck in traffic, an airport or even to the extent of facing our mortality before we are […]
There are times when your world shifts and you realize how conditioned you are to thinking and feeling a certain way about things that happen in life. I am blessed by a rebellious spirit and an insatiable curiosity that has allowed me to question and shift perspective about many ingrained cultural assumptions. Spent […]