Posts Tagged ‘unknown’

Shift Happens

March 3, 2009

Today I pretended I was my own client (b/c if I can’t walk my talk, no sense in continuing, eh?) and made a two lists: one with tangible intentions and another to help me move through this sticky sludge like inertia I’m feeling. Here’s the second list.
Navigating Stuckness:
Have a good cry
Discover what I need to [...]

Dancing Hope

October 30, 2008

I walk through a local store past aisles bursting with untouched merchandise, my clicking shoes the only answer to an eerie silence. In response my stomache clenches recognizing the fear inside the quiet.  Next I arrive at Rhythm & Motion Dance Workout. As our group of 30 begins stretching and moving to the music, an undeniable force of hope enters the room. I dance in [...]

Spiraling Birth

July 13, 2008

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 [...]

Integration

March 25, 2008

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 [...]

In The Colors of Synchronicity

February 2, 2008

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.

dark light

November 20, 2007

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 [...]