i took the following exercise from one of my favorite sites on the wheel of the year and though i am not pagan, i benefit greatly from these reflections with self, nature, season and earth.

http://www.healinghappens.com/lughnasadh.htm

Reaping at Lughnasadh

by Ananaia O'Leary

When's the last time you paused to take stock of your skills? Can you claim ( Read more... )

my brain has hit a wall. (my skull, i guess!)

if my brain had wheels capable of exploring and traversing new terrain, imagine my skull is a giant wall preventing forward movement.... that my brain wheels are spinning in place - smacking and re-smacking the annoyingly in the way wall o bone.

it spins by the wind of the following thoughts: study ( Read more... )

i have learned more about the retardedness within ME by working with those considered retarded ( Read more... )

i am off today.  off from the tangle and struggle of caring for those who cannot care for themselves.  i marvel at the irony. though i have fought my way back and even TOWARD and then back and toward again,  the incessant flitting from ups and downs, i still wonder, often, actually, how qualified i am to care for anyone - and this includes myself ( Read more... )