Rarely do I actually ‘get sick,’ but this last week was a clear exception. I seemed to have caught the virus going around and felt poorly for several days, even spending the entirety of Saturday on the couch. As you know by now, I believe everything has purpose, including illness. Sometimes just to give us […]
Tag Archives: awakening
Spending time in Nature, attempting to ‘capture’ her beauty through my lens, I can’t help but feel that we are as the flowers, the leaves and all that is awakening just now with the advent of Spring. Each year these bits of Life begin to form, from seed to bud to full blossom. The flowers […]
We are as Dorothy: following the ‘yellow brick road’ only to learn we ‘had the power all the time.’ It feels as though the transformation process is moving at a rapid pace just now. And as I am observing the journey of others, it’s clear this is not true just for me. I believe strongly […]
It feels as though my emotions are turned a bit upside down just now–and I know that’s a positive thing in my personal journey. While I consider myself to be one who is acutely aware of her feelings and what lives beneath them, these have crept up on me and so bring a heightened state […]
When traveling along the spiritual journey, one of the spaces we encounter within ourselves is the “shadow.” Just what does this mean? For most of us, the immediate sense is of something dreadful, arousing the fears that live in our unconscious and driving them out into the light–or our consciousness. And this is the process […]
I’m struck by the similarity in beliefs about God and Mother Nature as I observe reaction to the tragedies on our planet. Growing up, we knew a God who ruled as Avenger and Judge. It was made clear to us that should we not follow the rules of “God” as laid out by the church […]
There are times I feel strongly the desire to express through writing, but the words escape me. This morning I decided to pick up an old journal from the middle of 2007 and seek out some of the poetry I had written a few years ago. Reading those lyrics that seem such a short time […]
