When Your Lover Is in Hell. {poetry}
When your lover in hell, it’s often the gateway to heaven... it is only through surviving darkness side by side, showing up no matter what.
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Embrace Your Divinity.
Our religious institutions tend to have us fearing divinity rather than seeing ourselves as a physical expression of that Divine essence.
’Tis the Season… for Holiday Overwhelm and Hallmark Hell.
Maybe the days are laced with more than a little overwhelm as you navigate the missing of what once was, or the ache for who is no longer here.
News Flash: Being Nice Can Block a Great Relationship.
Please run as fast as you can from anyone who would rather you be nice over being real. That said, being real is not an excuse to clobber people!
Walk of Life: Contrasting War and Yoga Practice.
The wages of war are swinish, dark, bottomless. Yoga is practiced for one reason, uniting body, spirit, mind. The wages of Yoga are breath light energy.
Yuba River. {poetry}
The Yuba river in northern CA held me and turned me in the white water of her hands one weekend when I didn’t think I could ever open myself again.
Oprah, Apathy, Basketball and a Few Other Things.
The battle is as old as Arjuna’s,
Who thought he was fighting his cousins
And their lust for power
But was really up against
The evil
Of his own apathy
The Descent. {poetry}
The descent was not an inferno
Or a sordid pit of corruption or a blazing chasm of hell;
It was a portal
to my highest state of being.
I Am Who I Am Because Of You.
So, no, you didn’t teach me everything, but you sure as hell taught me a lot. You taught me what it’s like to fight, and what I should be fighting for. You taught me what Saturday afternoons in love should be like. You taught me what midnights should feel like. And you taught me what waking up ...
Stir My Soul Fire: A Call To Smash The Quiet Love.
I beg you, do not be a wandering salesman with my soul, leaving if I slam the door in your face, straightening your tie and heading to the next home of someone who might have you. Burn down the whole fucking house.