Monthly Archives: January 2023
Many Paths to the Center
This month people have shared many paths one can take to find their center amidst the chaos and uncertainty of life. I find there is not one single way for me to find my ground, my center. Much depends on … Continue reading
Your Code
It’s alright to live by your own code. After A Long Dry Spell, by Tomas Transtromer Tomas Transtromer, a Swedish poet, lived his adult life and created his poetry in post-World War II Europe. When I read this line from … Continue reading
Along the Way
Most of us forgive Because we have trespassed Not because we are magnanimous. The Women Gather, by Nikki Giovanni Going to our center is a journey–one that we make again and again having been called away from our center by … Continue reading
Why Me?
Why is it, when one problem is solved another takes its place? Why me? Why always me? Well, that’s my anxiety talking to me. It always overwhelms me by telling me nonsense. The thing is most of the time I … Continue reading
What I Don’t Know
Not being afraid Of what I don’t know I unanxiously await the emergence. Nikki Giovanni, Space What I don’t know. It can keep me tossing and turning in the bed, unable to surrender my over-thinking mind to sleep. It can … Continue reading
Out of Whack
What puts me out of whack? Well, actually a lot of things. I’m going to tell you about the one thing that is the hardest to deal with and that’s my health. It is with me wherever I go. It’s … Continue reading
In the Heart
Succumb to the warmth In the heart Where divine fire glows. Axioms for Wildness, John O’Donohue If someone were to say to you–where are you? Think about how you would respond. The most likely simple response would be almost unconscious: … Continue reading