My dear friend/family Pam and I were on the phone talking about the latest email going around regarding Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, a brain researcher who shares the epiphany she had in the midst a massive stroke at a recent TED conference.
If you haven’t seen it, it’s worth all 20 minutes.
While discussing Dr. Jill’s insight about the left [...]
When funding for Homestyle Midwifery was cancelled and I completed my full time job as coordinator in July of ‘07, I needed to replenish from the experience. Homestyle’s absence created space for a new unknown regarding my work life and the only direction was a whispered word:
Integration.
I found myself hibernating; even when I wanted to emerge illness kept [...]
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 [...]
Thank you, Sacred Dance.
Body
stretches
open
freeing
song
inside
Movement
voices
feelings
follow
inner
map
Remembering
choice
composts
grief
into
healing
Yesterday, just after I published Imbolc, seeds and grief, I entered my car with the question “What is the relationship between grief and seeds?” reverberating through me. I turned on the radio to Ben Harper’s “In the Colors “…
So, meanwhile, in the not knowing, I’ll keep dancing.
I can’t seem to tear myself away from staring at pictures of Glastonbury, England. Perhaps it’s because today is Imbolc, and though I am culturally Jewish, I feel especially at home in relationship with pre-patriarchal earth based traditions. Imbolc marks the middle of winter and holds the promise of spring. In surfing (procrastinating!) I found a website that offers some [...]
