Union

At their union I am moved By the course of truth. What has brought me To be madrinha A Turkish man Lovely woman from Spain Her Lebanese born French Husband. Two Romanians In love. The solidarity Of this path. Union: The heart of this matter, To be one.

Sister

She comes When the process Says carry on, Carry on…

Cycle-Reset, in pace with love n soul

There was once Beautiful Friday It lasted two years A day a week To date & Be totally in love, Adoring me. Somehow it Came to an end. Yesterday, Moon Day one I decided So shall it be, again Now here, Flat waves & My favorite spot ever To swim. So amazed, I Wouldn’t have…

Health

I take a day off An afternoon all to myself The book I’ve been saving For a day like this Makes me sigh. I think, this is grace Then my body’s gentle Response, No, this is Health.

Body work

Body work is soul work. Imagination is the bridge between body and soul. To have healing power, an image needs to be taken into our body on our breath. Only then can the image connect with the life force. Only then can things change. -Marion Woodman Coming Home to Myself

Women’s Mysteries: The Threshold Stage

Last Thursday I felt my body ushering me into my threshold time. Threshold means at the edge.  In this case, I use the word to mean being in-between two different ways of being. One way is active, initiating, directed, this is called the follicular stage, the time of month when our sex energy is ovulatory…

The Real Work

Sitting in the auto shop waiting Here are the women: 3 beside me, a divorcee and a mother daughter pair And the daughter says the sweetest thing to the divorcee about her eyes The divorcee’s heart crack fills this room & this is the myth us gals must dispel That we are here to work…

Some days …

More than others There’s something About the smell

When spirituality stops working

In 2010, I resigned from my job at a community college because of burn out.  For two years I had worked with a very small team to establish educational programs for adults in rural and often very poor communities on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.  We covered hundreds of miles each week in four counties and started…