Saying Goodbye: The Healing Power of Love.
Her final gift before crossing was for me to receive all that love she felt. She poured it into my body and she left me with immense gratitude.
Things I’ve Learned of Love as a Seven Enneagram.
In love relationships, imagination dominates reality to the point of being indistinguishable. This results in confusing, crazy-making connections.
The Blind Battle: A Different Kind of American Ecosystem.
Our parents came of age with a view of unlimited expansion, we are working with a different view, with different material.
We Must Create a System to Support Truth for Everyone.
Do you think we can profit from the economic advantages and the support system of a globalized world without fulfilling our duties?
I Find Myself Clutching onto a Ladder of Hope.
Yet, pushing upward and onward, I find myself choking on the thinning air where the heat rises. More breaths are taken from me than I can seem to find.
Embrace the Whole: Summer, Winter, Present, Future.
The dormant fullness of the present can be expanded and further enriched by magnifications of what the cumulative future holds.
Taking a Chance for Myself After Years of Marriage.
My sisters and I watched it for years. It made us angry, so we chose emotionally damaged boy/men at early ages. They divorced theirs. I stayed. And left.
Coincidences Are Not Coincidences: My Shadow and I. {poetry}
I must face my shadow side if I am to evolve into what the Bodhisattva poet-warrior of loving kindness 7th-century Buddhist monk Shantideva describes below.
Your Pain Doesn’t Need Justification.
Temporary or chronic, no pain needs a justification, as if to say “I had it worse.” Don’t rush your healing, if healing is possible.
Trust Issues: Why We Don’t Trust Ourselves.
Every time we disconnect from ourselves, we etch onto our psyche and personality that it’s unsafe to be our authentic self and thus trust who we are.