I am looking for a zafu--one of those bulky round pillows you use for sitting meditation. I know where I can buy one, but I was wondering if, before I spent the money, anybody I knew might have an extra one, or one they weren't using and wouldn't mind passing on to a good home....

I can never really allow myself to think about it being spring, or nearly spring, until it is actually March--this despite the fact that I have lived all of my life in places where it is not unusual to get snow well into April or May.  And February is traditionally a cruel month to me and mine, so even a mild February feels treacherous and ( Read more... )

I had a truly amazing and inspiring weekend at the Iron Pentacle workshop I attended.  I knew I needed to do the work that the Iron Pentacle calls for (the points are sex, pride, self, power, and passion, for the curious) but was feeling a fair amount of trepidation about what it would mean to work on those points and engage the shadow side of them ( Read more... )

In some ways, the hardest thing about this illness has not been its physical impact, bad as that has been, but its emotional one.  It hit me just as I was starting to settle into the routine of my Spring semester, throwing everything off-kilter and making the new beginning seem like an uphill battle instead of a fresh start.  It came just in time ( Read more... )

One of the things I am finding wonderful about the feastforthesoul project is that it gives me permission to spend time on my spiritual practice.  While I might often want to spend some time making kala, meditating with my tarot cards, or writing, in my daily life I usually shove those things aside, instead prioritizing the more immediate "work" of grading or ( Read more... )

One of the interesting and wonderful things about being part of the feastforthesoul community is that just reading about how other people approach the logistics and intentions of their daily spiritual practice is spurring me, as intended, to think about new ways to approach my own attitudes and habits.  There are some things that I want to have be truly daily-- ( Read more... )

I'm a bit confused about how to count this post.  I wrote two other 100+ word entries in my paper journal while I was away, but as I haven't gotten around to transcribing them yet and don't want to do so right now, I might as well call this one 27 and then number the other ones once I finally post them ( Read more... )

It is a clear midnight here, crisp and cold and still.  Tish got in this morning and so that whole section of myself that is tied to him is once more at ease.  Much of the rest of the day was spent in present-wrapping and food preparation, and of course much petting of the dogs ( Read more... )

It was one of those days where you it the ground running and 14 hours later you come back into your house and put away all the things that you had taken with you when you left in the morning (except for the ones you had given away as gifts and loans, which stayed in other places) and you are so used to the going and the doing and the seeing and the ( Read more... )

This evening, after hearing some rave reviews of it from two people I very much like and respect, Tish and I went with in_parentheses and spooky_thing to see Bill Maher's film Religulous. And it would not be going too far to say that I hated it ( Read more... )