Sila Sojourns

Bubbling thanks to Jill Pangman and Jennifer Berezan and all the women who journeyed with them on the recent retreat at Primrose Lake… any women searching for more depth and joy in their lives are encouraged to consider one of Jill’s gatherings!...

Mark Nepo – Book of Awakening

I went to a bookstore sale in February 2012 and treated myself to a book by Mark Nepo, thinking how much I liked some of his articles and poems. When I got home, I had a moment of shock, anger and disappointment to find I had bought a “daybook” requiring...

Silkmaking

Circles widen of their own accord, webs don’t need planning but come from deep within the body of the spider. She feeds herself and silkmaking happens. Propelled by her instinctive need to live, she makes a few leaps, attaching to the flexible support of the...

Notice the rocks

Notice the rocks that surround you, boulders you have carried and set down, piles of gravelly resentful sediment fortifying your stories and stones. Sing them down with the deep vibrations of your longing, the low rumbling moans that tremble and gasp and resound...

Take off your shoes

Take off your shoes, or maybe your clothes, and find a way to set yourself aside without losing the fluid pulsing of your body. Let the scrambling cease, allow the fullness of the empty room to sound like the silence of a cave. Prepare to descend. Know that she calls...