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  • Healing Won.

    I dropped the letter in the outgoing mail; it sat in the box for a few hours, with me working nearby. Every now and then, I wondered if I should take it back; pull it out and retreat back to… Continue reading

  • Darkness is the Only Love She Knows

    (reposting this for my brother) “The more of our self we own, the less need for enemies to embody our disowned darkness. Everything is welcomed by the soul.” Pat B. Allen. People are carrying the dark parts of us? Who… Continue reading

  • Shamelessly Me

    “Yoga Makes you you” is what Bikram says near the end of the 90 minutes of yoga, and until today I had always envisioned a new me.   Today I realized that I get to be me minus the shame.… Continue reading

  • A Mother who Walks in Reality.

    Last night I read, “Hannah’s Gift” by Maria Housden, Lessons from a Life Fully Lived.    What a great gift they gave each other as they bravely faced life as it unfolded for each of them, in truth.   For… Continue reading

  • Fear Moves Me Away From You…

    My mother and I had lunch at the Pilgrim River yesterday.  Unscheduled, unplanned and unseen.   Five years have passed since I laid eyes upon her and she looks the same, dresses the same, and seemed her old self, not… Continue reading

  • Caught

    One last section from ‘Sickened’…by Julie Gregory.   Spring thaws the farmhouse, and in front of the mirrors, my breasts begin to form. They get white, tigerlike stretch marks on their sides from a burst of growth.  My hipbones expand… Continue reading

  • Keeper of their Illusions.

    One more part that really stayed with me from Sickened by Julie Gregory.   “I now feel ready to try and talk to a therapist again.  Most times I do not feel like a client, but an educator who pays… Continue reading

  • The Silent Aunt who disappeared….

    “He couldn’t not know what he knew; he couldn’t not see once he saw.”   Patti Digh   It hit me today in yoga, that what I am witnessing in my great niece is Me.   Me as a newborn baby… Continue reading

  • Wrong Places.

    "Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you" Dr. Wayne W. Dyer     What I want to know is what… Continue reading

  • The Web Called Life!

    I now know what it is like to come home from a long day of work, to be relieved of the stress of wondering if your car will make it through the day, (my breaks are barely working) ready to… Continue reading