Some people simply have no capacity to see things outside of themselves. No desire to help themselves, or even begin to help themselves and expect others to do the helping for them. Some people are unwilling (and at this point I believe it is unwilling and not unable) to let go of the past, because, well that would mean taking responsibility for ( Read more... )

I am ending the day on a sour note. Someone very dear to me crossed a line today, and I don't just mean put their pinky toenail across it, I mean took a big fat honking step over it and then kicked me in the privates with the other foot ( Read more... )

Look what the goddess does when she is sad ( Read more... )

The wife blue sky wants to benetrate the earth ( Read more... )

On Hildar Hill the goddess sat ( Read more... )

Don't worry so much about tomorrow ( Read more... )

The goddess is an eye of fire,
born from a cauldron of strength.
The goddess is a radiant fire,
born from an ocian of fear.

The goddess is strong and fearsome.
Her magic is strong and powerful.
When she grows angry, she strikes,
and her enemies wither from her wraith.

--Egyptian Coffin texts

Egyptians knew when they honored Sekhmet, the wrathful ( Read more... )

Gray-eyed one, I sing of you, wisest and most beauitful, relentless Athena, protector of cities, strong-armed and fair. From his head the great god birthed you, dressed in golden armor and bearing a sharp spear. The holy mountains shook when you were born, and the earth quaked, and the sea's dark waves broke against the land. Even the sun ( Read more... )

From The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.

At heart, hospitality is a helping across a
threshold.
--Ivan Illich

This is the hospitality of relationship: for family to help us manifest who we are in the world, for friends to bring us to thresholds of realness, for loved ones to encourage us to ( Read more... )

From The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.

If you try to understand love
before being held,
you will never feel compassion.

But once everyone left, he was alone with all he knew.I've been thinking about friends and friendship… about love and loving… and being loved, and being a friend… how we make ( Read more... )