Sea and Sand
One of my favorite places is the Oregon Coast. Looking foward to doing some camping and hiking this weekend. Here are some photos from past visits. Enjoy and happy Friday everyone! Growing up on Long...
View ArticleCandle in the Wind
A wonderful day meeting new friends and sharing the “separation from the Beloved,” which invites this brief excursion into the heart of Rumi: There is a candle in your heart… There is a candle in your...
View ArticleThink Outside
Although it’s become common parlance for people when problem-solving, to say, “we need to think outside of the box,” I hear those words and can’t help but wonder, “what box?” If we know there’s a box,...
View ArticleWhere We Are
Tagged: Beauty, Daylight, Fog, Friends, places, Poetry, Prayer, rain, Touch, William Stafford
View ArticleI Can See For Miles
It’s fun to go camping for a few days, but great to be back home – especially after not having access to a shower. My husband and I spent the last couple of days in the Mt. Hood National Forest,...
View Article11 Day Clearing – Anima Mundi
My apologies for the lateness of this post. It was supposed to be done yesterday. This post is part of the 11 Day Clearing Challenge initiated by bluebutterfliesandme, a series of posts reclaiming 11...
View ArticleThe Soul of the World
The Soul of the World is the second part of James Hillman’s two-part book, The Thought of the Heart and The Soul of the World, in which he sees a world suffering a breakdown in much the same way as...
View ArticleI-Me-Mine
Is it the fear of what is other, the initial recognition of duality, that tempt us further into categorizations of duality? Is individuality, that necessary movement for freedom of action, what fosters...
View ArticleRevolution
Once upon a time, some men believed that the sun revolved around them. Then one day, here and there, some very brave men decided they wanted to know how true we could be. Why would the sun, so precious...
View ArticlePolyphony
“Songbirds sing. That is fact, not metaphor. They sing, and in the forest every morning, when a dozen or a hundred or a thousand individuals of six or ten or twenty different species sing at once, that...
View ArticleLove and Beauty
…for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him. Plato Let’s start at the end. What...
View ArticleDivination
Divination The idea of divination has become somewhat maligned in present times, primarily from two opposing currents: a science that places faith entirely in its own material rationalism, and a...
View ArticleCapricorn New Moon, Solar eclipse
Freedom includes the will to suffer this dark moon freely. No resistance. Today, I need to know that, and what, I suffer. I am afraid of that -knowing me-. I am afraid. To deny, ignore, or refuse what...
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