Category: words
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Even though she might.. hit bottom via famine, capture, injured instinct, destructive choices and all of the rest, remember at the bottom is where the living roots of psyche are. It is there that a womans wild underpinnings are. At bottom is the best soil to sow and grow something new again. In that sence,…
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the woman within.
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I had two watershed experiences when I was in my early twenties, experiences that went against everything I had been taught about my body up to then. While at a women’s weeklong gathering and at night at the fire near the hot springs, I saw a naked woman of about thirty-five; her breasts were emptied…
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Her feet bare more of that of ninety years, They are more weathered than any explanation can offer They are feet that have walked this earth many many times, I know this to be true. She is remembering rather than learning, Her purpose is strong like a ferocious wind, She is going to move through this…
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I have lots of things to teach you now, in case we ever meet, concerning the message that was transmitted to me under a pine tree in North Carolina on a cold winter moonlit night. It said that Nothing Ever Happened, so don’t worry. It’s all like a dream. Everything is ecstasy, inside. We just…
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draw near, women and hear…
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draw near, women, and hear what I have to say. Turn your curiosity for once towards useful objects, and consider the advantages which nature gave you and society ravished away. Come and learn how you were born the companion of man and became his slave; how you grew to like the condition and think it…
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takings from, Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.
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I exist as I am, that is enough If no other in the world be aware, I sit content And if each and all be aware I sit content. Whoever degrades another degrades me… and whatever is done or said, returns at last to me, And whatever I do or say I also…
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thoughts over lunch.
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The simplicity of feeding the chickens who laid the eggs for me to cook to feed to the children. can all of life possibly be this simple? I am so thankful that my children are living just a little of this simplicity, in between ipads and youtube train clips. I’m thankful that my three-year old…
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You are so brave and quiet, I forget you are suffering -Hemingway For a rustic effect wrap your pots in coconut basket liners and tie with brown string. You can buy basket liners from nursery and hardware stores. If you cut them down the middle and open each piece up they will wrap easily around the…
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He asks, ‘What is it you do? I’m a mother ‘Yes, I know that but what else, before that? She feels her heart drop to the pit of her stomach , as she frantically searches her mind for a more suitable answer. A mother, just a mother. He is oblivious in the knowing, that in that moment all…