Sacred Life Sunday: Body

I’m still basking in body. 

Dearest Body

Thanks to Rachelle for the nudge towards  Suzanne at BlogHer so I could participate with an open letter to  my body:
Dearest Body,
You are my greatest teacher, a doorway into awareness.  There is no way to say it all, but here is some of what I’ve gathered on our travels together:
Thank you for responding to my spiritual questions with a [...]

Being tumbled

  
I’ve been down in the underworld riding waves of fever and studying resistance. 
I’ve been resisting the reality that this is my second flu in the span of 3 months.  How can this be?  When I worked at Homestyle Midwifery I took off 1/2 a sick day in 16 months. 
My mentor friend  asks, “Is this a healing crisis?”  My [...]

Sacred Life Sunday: Fevered Dreams

I’m still very sick so not doing much computer but
In fevered dreams
I ride on
lines of poetry
seeing only                                                                                                                  “weaving”
“threads”
“despite”
perhaps this is enough

Down, down, down

My 12 year old has been down with the flu since Monday.  It was a bad one with high fever, scary cough.  It reminded me of the early days of mothering, where the world stops and we hibernate at home tending the our little ones. 
Five days later and she’s still home, almost better.  She’s ready [...]

Sacred Life Sunday: Sacred Dance

Thank you, Sacred Dance.
Body
stretches
open
freeing
song
inside
Movement
voices
feelings
follow
inner
map
Remembering
choice
composts
grief
into
healing