Donna Ashworth wrote: "There were days I thought I was fine, and then something small - a smell, a memory would hit me like - a wave. This year, I realized that healing isn't about forgetting but about learning to carry the love and the loss together ( Read more... )

🎶Prisoner of the past
I'm not here to ask you for a way out🎶

Yesterday was a gentle day of reflection for me. I got to enjoy some quality time with one of my favorite dogs, Ceiro, and his fellow packmate Leema was pretty well behaved for a switch. I managed to get a couple of good photos of each of them, which was nice to manage to do. I was mostly ( Read more... )

I woke with the sound of bluejays screaming at ... something. At first I thought they might be harassing my owl friend, but it was actually a flock of blackbirds that were driving away the jays ( Read more... )

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A friend of mine from high school complained about the "gloomy weather" this morning. He's been pretty down lately, from what I noticed, so I noted something for him. I love this weather, autumn leaves of varied hues show even more vibrancy to their colors when damp. The rain on evergreen needles and edges of buildings magnifying the prismatic ( Read more... )

Amani Albair said, "When people allow you to know about their pain and talk about it, take your shoes off. It’s a holy place. Be humble, be kind when someone shows you vulnerability."

When I spoke of my friend Paul Marene, I had been hoping to merely let others know what made me feel out of sorts, what the toxin was that was in my spirit and why I ( Read more... )

It's been interesting to see what Anya, Dy, Joy, Rahni, Tori, even Mara, Naya, Tammi and Xey are saying. The Sunflowers are speaking with one another, and it's astounding to see the clarity of how much each of them learned from what Grandma Tay and Val both taught, how much went to their very roots and


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This one has to be a locked post, for good reason; it's tough to get it out and it's hard to know just how people would respond, and who would fly off the handle. But it has to be told about, finally. I hope that it's read through and considered what might be said by those potentially still reading my words before any response. It's far too much ( Read more... )

This last week the Suns and Sunflowers have been wheedling at me, so that I would finally relent to doing a lesson with/for them. I wanted it to be something worthwhile, instructive, showing why we learn these movements and how beautiful it can be. I went through the bare-bones basics while doing warm-ups, showing roll-back, push, grasp, pluck, and ( Read more... )

🎶Said you'd give me light
But you never told me about the fireClose your eyes, my love, and fall deeply, utterly, into the embrace of the unknown. Let yourself sink into the sea of affection that surrounds you, and stay there let it cradle you in its infinite warmth. If the world seems shrouded in darkness, do not fear. Look again, for perhaps it ( Read more... )