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Being Light
As we enter this period of increasing darkness in the annual cycle, I have been contemplating what it truly means to hold the light within the darkness. And how we can strive to be lighter, in the truest sense of the world. A Brazilian song I recently rediscovered has given me a fresh perspective on Continue reading
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Take Time!
Take time! That is the message I got last night from an ayurvedic website called Banyan Botanicals. I had googled them about what to do for adrenal fatigue – which I was feeling creeping upon me with a heavy hand for more than a week. Ache in the lower back, around the kidneys. Challenge getting Continue reading
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Be a Tree
Happy Springtime: flowers and buds, downy chicks and fluffy bunnies, golden slants of sunrays, some drops of rain. What a promising, and potent, time of the calendar year. Nature puts on her new garments and parades them for all the world to feat upon: with our eyes and in our souls. Springtime can also be Continue reading
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Those We Have Lost
Loss is a natural part of life, of all life. It is the other side, the necessary complement of birth and creation. But sometimes loss, certain kinds of loss, can feel raw and chaffing, unresolved and aching, painful and disconcerting. We may try to put a band aid upon this wound, hoping to cover it, Continue reading
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What Nourishes You Soul?
What is your soul food? I don’t mean the food that feeds your body. I am referring to what nourishes your soul. Now is a good time to consider this question, with the start of a New Year, chronologically speaking. What a year 2021 was for all of us, just about the entire human race. Continue reading
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The Seasons in our Lives
I love springtime. Ever since I was a child, it has been my favorite season of the year. I recall my utter happiness when the crocuses would first pop up along the roadside on my hometown in Connecticut and I just knew that my heart would open wide and I could soon be running around Continue reading
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THESE TIMES
Fourteen years ago, in mid-December, I met the man who I am now married to at a Shopper Christmas party. One week later, my mother passed away peacefully on the night of the winter solstice. I nestled close to her now cool body until the ambulance arrived. This year, there will be no Shopper party Continue reading
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OFFERINGS
For as long as I can recall, I have been fascinated by the concept of offering and offerings. One of my first writing pieces from third or fourth grade was titled “Death Wish”. It was about an indigenous man singled out to be the blood offering for a ceremony who is rescued at the last Continue reading
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Expansion and Contraction
There are natural cycles and patterns on planet Earth that impact us all, sooner or later. One of these is expansion and contraction. This cycle can be noted in so many aspects of our life and lives. In our breath, we inhale to a certain point as our lungs expand, and when they have reached Continue reading
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