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7 Common Ways in Which We Unconsciously Operate from Scarcity in Our Lives.

April 24, 2018

There isn’t enough (scarcity) to go around, so I have to submit to their authority, and someday I’ll be powerful enough that they will have to submit to me.

you and me

I Am Not a Sheep.

April 24, 2018

Each day I walk through the door I see my goofy face, with my big blue bow cocked to the side, before I ever knew I wasn’t destined to be a sheep.

you and me

I Sleep with a Photo of My Little One.

April 24, 2018

While I take responsibility for the events leading to that moment, that invasion is where I am stuck. Stuck because it led to my little baby without a dad.

wisdom

Befriending the Land, My Earth Home.

April 23, 2018

I knew the land had heard me. I felt her reach out her giant arms and wrap me up inside of them. I heard her chanting, "Welcome back, welcome back.”

you and me

My Rapist Died This Morning.

April 23, 2018

My rape wasn’t the violent stranger rape that so many women are subjected to. I knew my rapist and I know I walked into that room with him.

poetry

Where We Are Going, Will There Be Grass? {poetry}

April 23, 2018

Whitman asked of us to “loaf and invite our souls” to “observe a spear of grass” and did you? Did you let your frame soak into the earth...?

wisdom

None Can Know What Gets Lost and Found at the Crossroads.

April 20, 2018

We do know that to be alive is to age, and aging is inherently a losing proposition to which we must surrender, with grace or not.

you and me

Fear Prevents Us from Speaking Our Truth: Reflections During Pregnancy.

April 20, 2018

It’s... Fear, sitting in his dark corner with a smirk, twisting his mustache and rubbing his hands together, plotting our paralysis.

a world

On Standards: Let’s Raise Them.

April 20, 2018

The standards we set in our personal lives, and for the larger world, should reflect our humanity, our worthiness, and who we are as people with inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. So, let’s raise them.