I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. ~ Jean Cocteau I am late posting, because we had a visit to the vet today with our sweetie Sierra. It looks like we are going to begin treating her for lymphoma. That’s the bad news. But the … Read more
Dark of the Moon, new beginnings; Dark of the Moon, plant a seed tonight; Dark of the Moon, what we envision Will come to be, by the Full Moon’s light. While I am off helping and celebrating today at Pagan Pride of Raleigh (Central NC), a most magical new lunation will commence. Don’t miss the … Read more
Okay, yesterday’s post was a bummer and not really wordless. It’s a new day, and so I am offering this in the name of healing, hope, and beauty. Many thanks to my dear friend, Mike, who shared it with me. I hope you will enjoy it, too. (And once again, I strongly recommend expanding it … Read more
We begin to know the immensity of our heart-mind, and how it helps us to move beyond fear. What had isolated us in private anguish now opens outward and delivers us into wider reaches of our world as lover, world as self. ~ Joanna Macy, The Work that Reconnects Tonight, Dec. 11, is the third … Read more
How better to honor our war Veterans than to resolve to end the millennia of wars and violence? Here is another powerful, beautiful post from Riyana, who is at Occupy Oakland. (Remember the Occupy movement? Despite mainstream media having mostly moved on to other things (as we knew they would!), Occupy is still growing and … Read more
My spirit is chiming, vast and deep as a temple bell, filled with hope and awakening after spending the day yesterday in a workshop with the incomparable Joanna Macy. In deepest gratitude, I share here the words of her friend and colleague, John Seed, from their book (with Pat Fleming and Arne Naess), Thinking Like … Read more
I have had this much on my mind in the past few weeks, and so naturally, as these things always work, my friend Lynn Hayes just “happened” to have posted it on her site today. So I will echo her wisdom to share these words, because I know we need them now. May they resonate … Read more
Everything is Waiting for You by David Whyte Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone. As if life were a progressive and cunning crime with no witness to the tiny hidden transgressions. To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings. Surely, even you, at times, have … Read more