Here Comes the Blossoming. Today I stretched myself a bit. I tried out a silent bookclub sponsored by a little local independent bookstore, Read Books, housed in MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art). I’d read about the concept some time ago and was intrigued by this introvert-style approach to shared reading, so when I saw there... Continue Reading →
Beyond everything else, I believe the quality of our connections to other humans is the thing that will both enrich and sustain us. Leaving our comfortable and sometimes ectoplasm covered space to travel and connect can be just the shift we need in perspective as we heal and grow. Two years ago, I went on... Continue Reading →
Healing doesn’t happen all at once, nor does growth or revealing all of your light. It takes a village of helpers, a cocoon of companions, a multitude of choices and, quite likely, the length of a life. This doesn’t translate into a lifetime of sorrow or somber attitude. Rather, it creates dazzling depths, moments of... Continue Reading →
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 →
This is my sweet chicken Clove. She lived with me for over four years. Crazy for cheese was she and, when she came running across the yard, she always made me think of Chicken Little because she looked like the sky was falling down. She and her sisters were the reason I got out of... Continue Reading →
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 →
The last time I saw her to talk to her, it was Christmas Eve and I was in a hurry to get on the road because I knew that tunnel traffic could stretch my 45 minute trip to my brother’s house into far more than an hour. I was delivering my end of our long... Continue Reading →
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 →
Internal Luminosity 