The Dragonfly Does Not Fly, The Wind Carries It

"Birds do not fly, they ride the wind. Fish do not swim, they are carried by the water." #StoryOfGod I am pretty sure that the dragonfly does not consciously think of trust or non- trust in the air that moves it or the water that she dips into and could swallow her.  Trust in the infinite is more likely.  Our society is based on trust and trust has been so irreplaceably broken that we all struggle with trust issues nowadays.  Where there is no trust, there is only fear and apprehension.

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June 8, 2016 - It is okay to go slow

"Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too was a gift." Mary Oliver It is very difficult for me to focus on ME.  I am a service oriented soul and I have a hard time just being still.  I have been forced, struck to my knees , with grief, and I am taking some time to get completely up.  I tell myself, over and over:  You do not need to rush.  If you are going to fill moments, fill with art, with creating, with gardening, with friends and

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May 7. 2016 - Dance of Grief

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.- Emerson I came face to face with my human vulnerability, at its most dire.  I thought I had had dark nights of the soul.  This was the longest and darkest nights of my life.  I  had to learn to grieve wisely.  I, for the first time, sunk into a great yawning maw of grief and let others in.  I realize my grief was but a kernel of sand in an ocean of shores.  I was beyond doing anything that was not

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Philosophy of Mark-Making

A Woman of New Beginnings