Tag: knowing
Inner Truth Trumps Fear, Every Time
April 3, 2017
I have become entranced by the propeller that sits idle just outside my window. It works its way into a crescendo rotating into a magical Spin Art image that brings me back to a memory of my son at the age of 6; squeezing paint in different colors onto a spinning cardboard canvas. I am […]
Questioning, Questioning. Death and Rebirth. People and Things.
October 12, 2016
How much validation is there in the Christian practice that seeing the dead body helps to obtain closure? Do the Jews get over it much more slowly than those that have the ritual of an open casket? If so, I think I’m ready to see it, the dead body. (I don’t really want to see it.) But […]
Questioning Commitment and Truth
August 8, 2016
I walk into a long overdue yoga class after weeks and days of feeling overwhelmed by my life. I have not been to a 12-step meeting in a long time either. Emotional and spiritual practice: Fail. Nor have I blogged. My sponsor poses the question as to why I think that is. I want to ignore the question […]
17 Years Earlier (Excerpts from the Birth of Tariana Jade)
May 10, 2016
Today is my 3rd baby’s birthday. She is 17 and drove me home tonight. She is just as beautiful today as the day she was born. I have a ritual of sorts to go back on the birthdays of my children and re-read my account of their births. Many times I share the stories with them on their […]
The Letter Opener
May 8, 2016
I walked into work on Monday morning and sat at my desk. Initially I was supposed to meet a friend for a hike though began feeling work remorse because I spent so little time here over the weekend. As a retailer my presence is often required during the weekends. During this time of year, however, […]
How I Know a Dove Represents My Mom
April 23, 2016
This Island, Culebra, offers a generous representation of morning doves. Cooing, floating, making sure I know they are there. It’s quite comforting. It has become clear to me in this moment, why, on the morning of my mother’s burial (my birthday) that the Universe presented her to me on the roof of a neighbors home in […]
The Quarter Moon and Friends, Setting an Example
April 22, 2016
The quarter moon sits nearly alone in an early-morning powder blue sky. Even though it only shows a part of itself, the power that it commands is unmistakable. I know there is more to that moon, though it waits it’s turn to light up fully and show it’s capability. One visible star fades from view dissolving […]
Drum Circle, Full Moon, Cathedral Rock, AZ
April 9, 2016
From a short distance away I listen to the drummers orchestrating a beat as the full moon reveals itself to Cathedral Rock, one of the infamous vortexes in Sedona, AZ. I have been led here in spite of those that indicated that the drum circle doesn’t happen here at this time of year. Either way I […]
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