Heart Scribing While Feeling Like a Failure Heart Scribing: a deep look into your heart to create the space needed to deal with personal pain, fear, or sorrow. A spiritual writing practice of your heart.In my life there been times when I have been very depressed and overwhelmed. I felt alone and unable to do anything but [...]
Delight in Your Presence I thought I knew exactly what would happen And I was entirely wrong Because you are you And I didn't know you Until I did And then it was too late And would have been untruthful For anything else to be Including what I thought Which turned out [...]
Somewhere Somewhere out in the world you are there I feel your movement I feel your smile Directed toward the people in your life Your friends, your family, your clients. One day your there will be my here I feel your pull I feel your desire Directed towards the me you [...]
No Give, No Take I'm done with takers. No more! I'm done especially with men who do nothing more than take from me. I know most of them have no idea the extent of their taking caught as they are in the outdated energy of give and take. But that's not an [...]
A Whiskey Conversation I think he must have seen me across the room. I’m not sure because I was surprised when he slid into the chair across and said Hi. He made effort at conversation. He laughed, he asked, he tried to enter our circle. I felt caught and wanted to keep [...]
This Womb This womb has given birth to babies and more. More life. More love. More trust…much more. This womb, my womb, holds the center of my being and my loving. Its radiating heat has fueled my abilities both heart and mind, body and soul. My womb has been here through thick [...]
What Tree Do You Want to Climb? I recently read a wonderful book, The Eagle Tree by Ned Hayes, about March Wong, a 14-year-old boy on the autistic spectrum, and his love of a beautiful tree. The entire book is from the viewpoint of March and offers a fantastic perspective of trees [...]
To Be Held Gently I visit the Portland Japanese Garden often. In part because I am a volunteer garden guide. In part because it is such a beautiful place. This morning, sitting at the Sand and Stone Garden trying desperately to connect to the sand and the stone, I had an epiphany. [...]
The Moon in Her Fullness Venus rising And the Moon in her fullness I rise to the receiving Ready to bring all of me To the stillness of me. Now is the time To salute the giving To herald the adventure of a new ME. The Moon in her fullness ME loving [...]
Photosynthesis and the Human Body Photosynthesis: turning light energy into chemical energy. It’s good to sweat! Doesn’t have to be physical exercise. Sitting in the sun, an infrared sauna, or a hot yoga room. When you sweat, you're energetically taking in light and letting it go. Getting your body to sweat is [...]
Adventure in Truth When we let ourselves see only what we expect to see, we view the contents of our own minds and miss what is truly before us. Takashi Matsuoka, Cloud of Sparrows One of my main challenges in life is to go beyond what I expect. I have found that [...]
Dear Moma! Dear Moma! I love you! It's been twenty years since you passed, but I have missed you every day that you have been gone! Though there are many times I feel you with me especially in song. Every day I think of something I would like to ask you. And [...]
How do we think of space? There is outer space, the location and its contents outside of this earth’s atmosphere or past our known solar system. There is inner space or that psycho-emotional-spiritual awareness that we feel within us. There is “I want my space” in the feeling that we need a place [...]
The Spiritual Practice of Peace as Connection For me peace does not mean the end of conflict. For me peace is the ability to connect. I do not want a world where we all single-mindedly agree on each topic. How boring! For me peace comes in knowing that when conflict arises, we [...]
Destiny as Spiritual Journey Destiny then is not just the course of our lives and the fortune or misfortune we encounter. Our lives are more than the fates chronicled in our individual tablets. Destiny springs from our own personal characteristics, who we are, our natural gifts, our abilities and talents, our intentions [...]
Ganesha, Obstacles, Connection, and Truth In Indian mythology, Ganesha, the elephant-headed god, is the remover of obstacles. Chanting his mantra, Om Gum Ganapatayei Namaha, can be a powerful practice for releasing obstacles of all kinds, both external and internal. In India, the image of Ganesha is placed above the door, especially the [...]
What is Safe Harbor? Deep within me is the need to seek sacred relationship. This is relationship with myself and this is relationship with other, especially but not limited to a life partner. In sacred relationship, I seek a sense of alignment, a sense of coming home. In short I seek safe [...]
The Heat of Anger Anger comes when there is a dissonance between the realization of intention and the expected path of the intention. In other words, anger can emerge when what is expected is not what happens. All action happens within the infinite possibility of the infinite and eternal which is always [...]
An incredible sense of exuberance and elation is possible in any moment. Often this sense comes when the push, the resistance, the extreme effort lets go and just acknowledges the connection and balance in the moment. My joy can be quiet and serene, bubbly and triumphant. My joy comes from my center of being and [...]
Your Question is Your Question Everything comes from the Akashic Records comes through intention. Within an Akashic Record Reading, questions are how intention is expressed. The question doesn’t need to be any more than “I have this issue and want to know more?” There are no right questions or wrong questions. Your [...]
