by heather | Nov 27, 2010 | Reflections
This is not about falling in a hole but just falling to ground… Nausea, fatigue, gratitude, sadness, quiet. Caretaking, caring, being careful to tend what is here. Uncertainty about flight but willingness to stop looking ahead, to be with what is here. Learning...
by heather | Nov 27, 2010 | Reflections
So much learning when we can find ways to listen to our own bodies. In forgiving the ways I have constricted breath, I stumbled over my early belief that “I” live inside this body like a spirit wearing a heavy snowsuit, rigid with padding. Recognized that...
by heather | Nov 27, 2010 | Sources of Inspiration
If you are OK with letting a mother cat grip your mind in her teeth and give it a good shake as she carries you to a new place… then you will enjoy John Tarrant’s introduction to Zen koans. He affectionately helps us shake up our perspective on…...
by heather | Nov 27, 2010 | Poems
Calligraphy in malls, he wrote. Or with a grubby 8 year old thrilled with new pens. Or a circle of song in a room of resilience and messy tables. Or a place of retreat that wheezes quietly, empty, full, empty, without a glossy flyer. Or poems lost in notebooks in...
by heather | Nov 27, 2010 | Poems
because after you stand up it is too late, and you need that tight grounding while seated, and there may be ruthless flight. Fasten them with gentleness and intention and awareness – unfastening requires a quick and fluid adjustment. Seat belt in flight,...
