white supremacist next door…1-19-21
My children, constant source of inspiration and wonder to me. I feel them so deeply, mid-life stream, transforming through adulthood’s unrelenting lessons. Juggling more than we prepared them for, showing […]
Entries by Bella
to forget and to remember…1-11-21
The ground of current events, the shifting backdrop of threats to our well-being, the hypnotic media messaging…it just keeps crashing on our shores. I wake each day and wonder what […]
“Attention is all we really have to give.” G. Roth 1-4-21
After The Holidays you might expect an essay about how unique, how challenging, how memorable the past two weeks were. And they were. But this morning I am curious about […]
a sudden inner impulse…12-29-20
Spontaneous: performed or occurring as a result of a sudden inner impulse or inclination and without premeditation or external stimulus Have you felt a bit spur of the moment lately? […]
light at the end of the tunnel…12-20-20
Last Sweat Your Prayers 2020 this morning, in Zoom-land and live in the garden we covered ourselves in white, called in the promise of light. A hope, a dream, a […]
The Great Pandemic Retreat of 2020 12-15-20
If it wasn’t for death and disparity and distress. If 10,000 people world-wide every day were not dying of this virus. If it wasn’t that 20,000,000 human beings are currently […]
a bit of hermit wisdom…12-8-20
Been learning from avowed hermits lately. Not recluses, who isolate out of basic human disdain. But hermits. Who live a life oriented to solitude, filling extra time with contemplative practice […]
plant medicine lessons…12-2-20
Plant medicine…trending way to politely reference pychotropic drugs. We are so creative with our euphemisms. Back in the day…well, I digress. But I’ve been steeped in plant medicine this week. […]
The Holidays…11-23-20
In a year when much has been lost, we turn to gratitude Thursday. We give thanks for all we still have. Which is what I really want to write about […]
when movement meets word….11-16-20
On my way to an inquiry about fully inhabiting the power of being, I was kidnapped by the word fluency. I’ve taught classes aplenty on the rhythm of flow. I […]