“The soul is a perspective that pushes us to go deeper and see further and live wilder. It’s what drives our imagination to flesh out our raw experience, transforming that chaotic stuff into rich storylines that animate our love of life. With the gently propulsive force of the soul, we probe beyond the surface level … Continue reading
Change
“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys … Continue reading
Beauty Belly
“Toward the end of the dance, the adolescent girl or girls (who have very recently had their first menstruation) jump up and look into the interior of a large abalone shell. ‘You look into it to see what you can see. See the future, see the beauty. Maybe, maybe you can see the beauty of … Continue reading
Womanhood, Sketch #3
“What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak. It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.”~ Gaston Bachelard somehow in this shattering, in this smattering of what held me together knit tightly like feathers around me to ground me… once … Continue reading
Womanhood, Sketch #2
589,999 per year, 49,166 per month, 11,346 per week, 1,616 per day, 67 per hour, 1 per minute ~ hysterectomy statistics, USA Read more at http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/h/hysterectomy/stats.htm?kcplink=1 why were there lesions all over my mother’s soft pink uterus? and, why was the only answer to take everything out? why was my aunt’s uterus taken out … Continue reading
Speaking Mountains
“Every part of creation is indebted for its life to the other parts of creation that have died and decayed so that it might live.” ~ Jessica Prentice these old mountains, they tell stories in languages i don’t speak and yet i still press my ear to the ground and listen as if eves-dropping … Continue reading
Elderberry Syrup Goodness
We just passed elderberry picking season. You can find them in their favorite place, a moist and vegetation-rich area, often-times near a stream or creek. There could be a species or two you could confuse with elderberry, but once you learn her serrated leaf shape and tell-tale white flowers in the early summer, you won’t … Continue reading
The Buzz
A few months ago I went to a beekeeping workshop at the Laughing Waters Retreat Center in Gerton, NC (just east of Asheville). I started searching for a workshop to educate me on bees after I had had a conversation with a friend of mine from SF on bee colony collapse — it’s impact on … Continue reading
Go to Yoga
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings have a human experience.” ~ Teilhard de Chardin go to yoga but don’t get lost in the fancy clothes or the accuracy of the pose or where you can put your nose you don’t even need a mat they’re rolled up in … Continue reading
As the Fall draws near
in the whispering tree forest where wind sways branches where sun barely reaches core there — on the forest floor leaves are piling thick as the Fall nears feathers, stones, dust and dirt, the bones of the dead are scattered and matted until the floor becomes dense with the memories of what was before. in … Continue reading
Lindsay Kolasa 