Mark Nepo's book, More Together Than Alone, is amazing to me. This book is heart-wrenching, tear-producing and heart-opening, all at the same time. The language is as beautiful as Mark always writes, while the subject can be intensely brutal, chaotic and painful to look at. And yet...I am SO VERY GRATEFUL. I am grateful that my heart is … [Read more...]
Please Accept My Apology
I’m sorry it’s been so long between posts here. Will you forgive me? You will? Thank you so much! Life found me lots of other places…geographically, as well as internally, growing into new layers of belief in my path, love, peace, and joy. Here’s a bit of the tale - While offering joyful wares at a local craft show in November, I … [Read more...]
Joy 201: Receiving Nutrients, Offering Shade
If you deeply love Divinity while not being grounded in your body, will you stumble through dialog when folks lack a spiritual bent? Will you ignore and abuse your body, which feels unattached to your being? Will you ignore an intuitive warning as you chalk it up to fear in your mind? Will you long to leave the earth, so you can commune forever … [Read more...]
The Hole to Make Whole
What if, when our souls leave our heavenly home to live a new earthly life, and we’re given a potion or blessing of forgetting why our spirits decided to come around again in matter, insuring our paths will be an antidote and a gift, what we receive, as well, is a longing to fill up that missing piece…our hole -- of not knowing why we’re here, … [Read more...]
You Don’t Really Belong in Our Family – the Pain of Separation
I’m guessing many (all?) of us have experienced lots of feelings of separation. In fact, close your eyes to bring those feelings into view. Maybe you’re even experiencing a few of them in your reality at the moment. Where is there separation in your life? I know a woman who’s estranged from her brother. Another who hasn’t spoken to her … [Read more...]
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