Pillar of Fire

Tonight for a few moments i was a pillar of fire i could hold my own even if a whole city was burning   but driving home in the car suddenly a tidal wave knowing for the first time how much i love you and not   knowing in which pocket to carry such knowledge...

Bridge

Dear ones, what is it we are after on this bridge, in the frozen solitudes? What simple act of kindness will bind us forever? What is it that might solve us, absolve us? What radiant glimmering now gone?   How shall we survive the tempest that swirls around our...

Drawing on the Power of the Moon

Today is the new moon, a natural beginning of a new cycle, one we can feel in our blood and bones, one we can see in the night sky. Peoples of all times have related to the waxing and waning cycles of the moon to help guide the rhythms of our lives. We are no...
A Love Practice

A Love Practice

Ask yourself: “What is the most loving thing I can do for myself today?” Now, get quiet. Wait past the first answer the mind wants to offer, which may be a reflex or something that’s habitual for you. Listen. Tune in. Pay attention to your deep...

Your Wild Heart, Your Tame Heart

What should I do about the wild heart and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. —Jeannette Winterson, from the novel Lighthousekeeping   How are you tending your wild heart? How are you creating a true home...