Both This and That
I buy outfits for dates I don’t even have prospects for—a little extra feminine, enhancing my eye color…revealing a curve—and imagine the excitement of feeling lovely in my skin as I dress to meet a man who makes things once in shadow seem manageable again . I watch myself with pride solving problems on my... Continue Reading →
Status with Substance
Connecting through books, shared experiences and ideas can be exhilarating. What is your current state of being and doing? Care to share? I’d love to hear! Do elaborate on any of your answers. I’m quite curious, as I’m always looking for new inspiration. I first saw this status list idea on the Read Books’s (in... Continue Reading →
Breaking Open to the Light
Being broken open isn’t the same as being broken. In fact, it may be the surest way to illuminate the vast universe that lies within. There is so much beneath the surface that we haven’t yet met, much less been intimate with. Healing waits to enter here with tenderness and patience, and there is so... Continue Reading →
The Truth My Bones Know
It is the season of hot, white blooming things--honeysuckle, jasmine, gardenia… The light this time of year, the air and the scent that weighs heavily on the breeze transports me back across a lifespan of deep, sensual awareness. It carries me from hopeful innocence to the anxious stirrings of adolescence and into mid-life where I... Continue Reading →
When to Blossom
Last summer while trying to make a very difficult decision, the strong message that was coming through by way of Runes and Mindfulness and Inner and Outer Counsel was: Separate, Cleanse, Blossom. Specifically, “All dark corners must be cleansed.” I didn’t completely understand it at the time, I only knew that I was in pain... Continue Reading →
Transforming Me
I write backwards. It’s much easier for me to write the outline after the ideas have flowed and the words have arranged themselves. Could I grieve backwards, too? I’ve waded through sorrow following an inner guide, and now I’m organizing the healing, logically, through theory and knowledge. Of course I believe my way is how... Continue Reading →
Help, I Have Done it Again
This is me, forest bathing, with less hair and wider hips. Nope, I am not showing you the hips. But I will show you the healing in progress. I have been here many times beforeHurt myself again todayAnd, the worst part is there's no-one else to blame ~Sia: Breathe Me* Last fall, I was feeling... Continue Reading →
Time to Let in the Light!
Three months ago, on the occasion of the Winter Solstice, I revived this blog about being the light by inviting in the darkness. It was the darkest day of one of the darkest years on the planet that came in the midst of one of the most difficult times in my life. It seemed appropriate... Continue Reading →
Internal Luminosity 