What makes the heart quicken? What makes the soul sing? What a magical moment when this rising up, this quickening, coincides with wonder and enthusiasm. Timeless surges of hope, wonder, imagination and new-found ideas welling up to crest and spill forth a sense of offering….gifts of insight gifts of inspiration and gifts of interest to […]
One Autumn Day….
One autumn day, this same weekend, 31 years ago, I met the love of my life….my best friend, my husband. I in love with herbs and healing, coming from mountains and nature, He in love with the Earth, healing and growing, coming from lakes and nature. It was love at first sight….when we met, presence […]
The Seed of Life
Within every human being there is a seed of life. It is a vibrant living source of energy. It is living and needs to be tended to and nourished. Some call it a flame others refer to it as something slumbering within every human soul. This beautiful living substance holds within it the essence of […]
The Life of the Heart
I woke up one day realizing that as others were educating the mind I was going through the initiation of the heart. Of course the heart has mindfulness. It even thinks. But with different words and rhythms and beats. The life of the heart is quiet, yet surely present each and every day. It has […]
Veil Upon Veil, Layer Upon Layer
When a child is born, they are naked to the world in that moment of time, until, the warm blankets are wrapped around the miraculous body, and the veils of love surround its human heart and being-ness. It is at this moment that veil upon veil and layer upon layer begins to surround each incarnating […]
Connections
Years of living and contemplating certain areas of life, allows through time, an evolution of consciousness, a progression of thought and an ever-changing perception and understanding of the world and each other. Swirling around me are thoughts and perceptions about the homelessness, aging and disorientation, and the reality of human connections. In every human life, […]
Quietness
When words become weapons and blame becomes truth. When anger spills forth with righteous indignation. When untouchable loftiness becomes right and reason wrong. When imagination is pushed aside, then, dignity goes underground and integrity splinters open like a seedpod. With coolness and place opening to sprout new seeds from finished, but not forgotten, sprouts. Life […]