by heather | Apr 25, 2011 | Poems
This radiant glow, active serenity pouring from her pores, stimulating bright responses from the yearning room … this lined reflection, furrowed brow working too hard to distil understanding from a wearying world …this slack-jawed snore, a pattern of...
by heather | Apr 10, 2011 | Reflections
Fluid and burning oxygen. Fire to act in a system of open river. Movement within stillness. Acknowledging the pain in my muscles and the spacious open freedom in the cells. Like Gaia conscious of all her trillions of manifestations, I can send love and good intention...
by heather | Apr 10, 2011 | Reflections
There is so much “becoming” energy in my life right now – the children growing weekly, the business changing, my body changing, the landscape melting… I can embrace all this flow without letting mind move ahead. Can let the mind focus on...
by heather | Apr 10, 2011 | Reflections
Allowed myself to briefly want – really WANT – freedom from pain. Am so schooled to think pain is inevitable and that wanting freedom from it is somehow immature, misguided, even selfish. And yet I am able to hear that lesson – that pain is...
by heather | Apr 10, 2011 | Reflections
I realized that these “mountaintop experiences” are about briefly seeing a variety of other peaks… and noticing the broad and obstacle-filled and pastoral valleys. We descend and play in the fields and get lost in the fogs and ascend again, sometimes...
