by heather | Jan 7, 2011 | Poems
When the pedestals have all been sold and stand as lonely reminders of a beautiful god now manifest instead of adored … when mass has forced energy out of the Christ holiday so that love and questions are all that remain … when the certain shape of God has...
by heather | Dec 6, 2010 | Sources of Inspiration
I was privileged to be part of a workshop with Joanna and mostly Whitehorse folks at Mount Lorne Community Centre in September. (Thanks to Jill Pangman for arranging this encounter!) Joanna’s books (and life) are important guideposts as we move out of the...
by heather | Dec 6, 2010 | Poems
The unstoppered flute, full open holes, seemed like the sound of liberation. No blockage, exquisite wrapping for air hugged by structured body. With breath, the manifestation of music sounds, unequal, divergent, trilling and keening, funereal and ecstatic. The flute...
by heather | Nov 27, 2010 | Reflections
I know that we are to clear the mind, allow for experiences of awareness without thought. But there is also an understanding that learning to “unleash” the mind – to let thought and imagination and vision practice running hard, just as we run the...
by heather | Nov 27, 2010 | Reflections
I have been wrestling with the demon of responsibility lately, learning to live in a new kind of trust that seems “irresponsible” but is really a radical act of accountability.. trusting that the survival needs will be met, that we can lose and gain and...
