I am revisiting the idea of surrender. I remember seeing an Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday with Iyanla Vansant, where Iyanla talked of surrender, and as she did so, she threw her arms wide open, her heart open, and raised her face upwards as if to fully receive … and it was a powerful moment for me,… Read More
Meditation is a form of dropping down, or away, from the roaring brainnoise. Yoga, for me, is sometimes this kind of meditation. So is walking or hiking. Swinging, singing, bouncing, dancing…. all bring me to edges of this place, but often my own self consciousness keeps me tethered. I never considered different forms of journeying… Read More
so here’s what they don’t tell you… at that junction, when you can choose to move ahead into the unknown territories, the challenges, the abyss, the revelation, the transformation… you can just as easily choose to head back to known, filled with the belief that somehow you can wait it out, and the call will… Read More
even when we’ve picked up our pieces, gathered them, glued them back together even when we’ve moved on in so many ways even when we’ve breathed in deeply for the first time, or the hundredth without a catch there is a moment or moments or moment after moment after moment when we realize that we have… Read More
because my journey is my truth, and my truth is asking to be shared: I am reposting this here–from last week, from my other blog. *** Driving up north on Route 3 is a slow rewind through spring. Back to buds and near bare branches back to just the gentlest haze of color on the… Read More
there is a quiet process of transformation. first, discomfort. a feeling of being a bit (or maybe more than a bit) lost. then, dawning realization that there is something more, something undone that needs doing, something unspoken, something that needs to be offered, laid bare. then fear– what happens if …? what happens when….? who… Read More
Loving this definition of “strength”: A strength is “an activity that makes you feel strong.” It is an activity where the doing of it invigorates you. Before you do it, you find yourself instinctively looking forward to it. While you are doing it you don’t struggle to concentrate, but instead you become so immersed that… Read More
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIX28aHasPU?rel=0&w=420&h=315] This weekend was about allowing ourselves to be brave, in small ways, by taking ourselves out of our comfort zones of known behaviors, of known skills, of known territory. This was about exploration, and serendipity, about happy accidents, and stolen moments. This, for me, was about strong tea and gluten free cupcakes, waist-high… Read More
I am not sure anything is more beautiful than long shadows on snow. The sky is an insane blue today, so clear, and the sun is low but warm. And I have needed to *make myself pay attention*, get out of my own way, notice the beauty that is right there, right outside my window.… Read More
Starting this morning with a breath. Snow is sparkling through the air. Yes, there is so much to do today for so many people. So much shoveling. So much to get ready for the week. For those of you feeling there is too much to do to really delve into this, I have an invitation… Read More
