“There are two sides to every story” is a popular phrase, but it easily diminishes, or makes fuzzy logic from, our Inner Knowing. The fact is: Truth doesn’t take sides, or have a side at all. It simply is. Like a circle, or the Sun, there are no edges, or sides, to the Truth. Others […]
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I choose where to place my Awareness, what’s worthy of my precious presence is determined only by me when the fire alarm du jour rings; when another inconvenience and discomfort threatens my peace, Again I ask myself: Do I want to suffer death from a million tiny papercuts? …little annoyingly uncomfortable things that for […]
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you do have something to contribute it may not look like what anyone else’s does it may not resemble a collective value, what the world says it wants, and so rewards or one we recognize yet- because your value is visionary it may… not fit into your daily life be disruptive disallow you from […]
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instead of confidence I want natural-ness the easy feeling of being myself, in myself comfort in my own body and skin doesn’t arise from pushing into areas that cause me stress I seek a different kind of experience just as water, following her own riverbed, doesn’t need to force, push or struggle she only needs […]
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there are so many things to feel powerless around plastics war unnegotiable change death what’s on offer at the market an unresponsive relationship when your healing hits you like a 2×4 extreme wealth extreme poverty so, so, much where’s your power, then? where is it among so many realities you cannot affect (or do very […]
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Like you, my life as an artist began with paper and crayola crayons. Over the years it’s kind of converged, back there, to that innocent place again. Mainly because making art can be so intimidating that you never even try. In college, I became an art major not because of inherent talent or encouragement but […]
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There are so many ways to get distracted by our daily struggles To give in…to frustration and emotion To the energy in motion we, or others, generate To capsize, just when we finally get our boat to float When, after days of going nowhere fast, we finally catch wind Only to wobble, then topple over […]
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When culture does not nourish you the Soul’s food can only be gotten by standing apart away from at the edge of the forest, solitary when the sense of Belonging, that arises from kinship with the world around you, crumbles when the places and faces you find yourself in, around cannot see or hear you […]
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I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by an online site called MysticMag. While it primarily advises users on psychic services, something I typically don’t resonate with, they also do a great service by introducing their audience to a variety of healers and healing modalities on their blog website. The questions asked were personal […]
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stop seeking perfection; it doesn’t exist –even the perfecting of your own understanding there is no “better than this” better mother, lover, partner more successful healer, teacher, friend there is only: What feels good now to me, right now? there is nothing broken in your life nothing wrong with you, or another there is only: […]
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