I cried when Jon sang the words to the Traveling Song. Just his voice, the snap-sounds of fire, the circle of ocean below us in a constant shhhhhushhhh. One of those times noise actually makes you feel quiet. That’s how big it was, the silence in the night. While you are away from…
Tag: soul work
So I drove to San Elijo State Beach
It was grey to the east, and hot, when I got in the car in San Clemente. Thirty minutes in the used bookstore and I was no closer to settling my discontent then when I had left Laguna. Plumbing from under my kitchen sink was all over my apartment floor, two workmen in and out…
Reflections
Here is the link to my latest post over at Dandelion Moms, where I am a regular contributor in their Reflections section. Dandelion Moms
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…
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…
Concerning the Topic of Love
I am a contributor over at Dandelion Moms. Read today’s guest post here: Concerning the Topic of Love
A Few Words on the Soul
by Wislawa Szymborska We have a soul at times. No one’s got it non-stop, for keeps. Day after day, year after year may pass without it. Sometimes it will settle for awhile only in childhood’s fears and raptures. Sometimes only in astonishment that we are old. It rarely lends a hand in uphill tasks, like moving…
My ol Winter Blues, “Women’s Mysteries,” and Merc Retro
I was driving on Bestgate Road in Annapolis and something in the way the wind hit me through the window made my heart give this respondent ache. It was March of 2001. My body, my heart was awake. I didn’t feel that dull, grey, sunless east coast flat. The nothingness that accompanies it,…
Soul-work is NOT self-esteem!
Now, it’s important to clarify some ideas. This work, soul work, it can edge up next to concepts that are self-helpy and lots of people, including myself, get eye rolls when it comes to that subject. Yea, it seems to surprise people when they learn that I shrink at New Agey I’m okay you’re okay…
Self-honesty as Soul Work
What does it mean, Soul Work? And how do we start? This is maybe the great pressing drive of my life so far. Having a life of soul. The need for it was characterized early on by an unyeilding sense that there had to be more meaning to life than the daily grind. I…
Wild Women Wisdom 