A favorite by artist Margaret Lindsey, photographed upside down.
A year ago yesterday, I completed my time at Homestyle Midwifery, an amazing on-call midwifery service at St. Luke’s Hospital which was unfortunately closed due to larger budget issues. After giving all of myself to pregnancy and birth in my work life, I had left other aspects malnourished.
I knew I needed [...]
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 [...]
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.
Marianne Williamson’s poem took me to a slightly different place. I would like to move away from the competitive duality of light versus dark. For me, darkness is home to the unknown, the place possibility also lives. I don’t think it’s an accident that seeds grow inside dark earth like a baby in a mama’s womb. Light is [...]
As much as I’ve been on a quest for meaning, I have also always been interested in learning and growing. I appreciate blissful experiences where I feel God’s breath course through me until I become peace. BUT. If I cannot integrate the feeling of peace into a daily interaction than I am missing an opportunity. It’s [...]
The term “spiritual” often leads to religion and God. But for me spirituality is simply a hunger for meaning. It is hopefully something that we can lean on during hard times. It offers insight into how we treat ourselves and others. Spirituality is a relationship with the unknown mystery of life; an energy that is [...]
