Tag Archive | childhood
Rediscovering innocence
Dearest readers, An innocent heart is the most powerful state of being. We look with delight into the eyes of a baby, a puppy, a kitten. The light flowing through the eyes of innocence is soft yet bright. Full of wonder, joy, simplicity. There are no shadows, no fear, no intentions other than to enjoy […]
The power of our emotions
Dearest readers, This is a quote from a Magenta Pixie video that I jotted down because it impressed me so much: “It is the emotion behind intent that produces manifestation.” Human beings are highly emotional beings. The chaos we observe in the world has been created in order to manipulate our emotional bodies and to […]
Paying guesses (a poem)
A crooked lady lived in a crooked house in a crooked land among those hills lay towns where good money was paid for the graces, ticking days, living flesh of inmates in this land, the dead were sold for profit and the souls of the poor and neglected did not matter disposable crooked almost zombies […]
Darkly nutritious fruits (a poem)
driving by the new high school forever frozen in time a moment of heart-break sat a little girl, five or six years old narrow face, hair neatly braided in rows slender legs splayed on the grass of the sidewalk strip. baby in carrier, mother out of car flashing blue lights, handcuffs on the man who […]
Bonding (a poem)
A beating heart made to cling comfort warm silky, if but that proverbial hanger enclosed by some fluff a sock or synthetic fabric a ribbon she wore in her hair could fill the deep well carved by nature never replenished by nurture what happens to a child who has never been embraced inside a parent’s heart or […]
Time Out: Parenting, Memories, and Immortality
Hello readers, This morning, my son set off for his first day of 9th grade. Last night, he set out all of his new clothes, photographing them so a friend could help him choose what to wear to school. He was anxious to arrive at school early to spend time with his friends. In fact, […]
Play (a very short story shaped like a poem)
Come out and play! Sluggish eyed, Taina no longer had the soft gaze and limp cuddle of a clearly innocent puppy. Childhood, a time for play, is no longer Replaced by other activities. Chores. Entertainment. Mating. And yet she was beginning to feel that the accoutrements of adulthood were A) not so important to being a successful […]
Demons, Self, Relationships, Wholeness
Hello readers, I don’t know about you, but the older I get, the more clearly I see myself (and the less I like myself and other people too.) What I mean is that the ideal image of the nice, kind self I once felt accurately described me became out of date. As the sides of […]
Perfectionism: A Self-inflicted Antidote to Wonder
Hello readers, Many of us, including myself, suffer from perfectionism. Striving to reach some perfect place, worrying about reaching goals – or not accomplishing as much or as well as we think we should , trying to achieve a state in which we can at last be worthy of our lives. Those are just a […]
Artist: Defender of Individual Liberties
Hello readers, In our hearts, we all crave freedom. The desire for freedom takes up permanent residence in a corner of our beings, bumping up to the desire for security. In the heart of the artist, the need for individual freedom is more often than not stronger than the need to assimilate into the group and be […]
Intuition vs Tuition: Where Does Learning Come From?
Hello readers, I have been reading James Hillman’s “The Soul’s Code”, and I feel a great affinity for the concepts he espouses and explains. His respect for the necessity of the invisible to give meaning to human life is really the backbone of my own quest in life. In “The Soul’s Code”, Hillman delves into […]
Laughter: Path to Living the Mystery
Dear readers, Thinking about life, love, creativity, and art are some of the things that make me feel very happy. This morning, as I was shelving holds at my library job, I was thinking about laughter and humor. I love to laugh, and I think we can all agree that laughter makes us feel as […]
Gender Fluid: Awakening to a New Era
There is an article in the August 12th issue of the New York Times Magazine http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/magazine/whats-so-bad-about-a-boy-who-wants-to-wear-a-dress.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 about children who feel comfortable identifying with both sexes at different moments in their lives. In the article, they label this type of behavior “gender-fluid“. I like the word; it seems to evoke all kinds of interesting concepts. Since […]
Desire or Fear?
I feel a lot of compassion for humans because we are all so short-sighted, especially myself. In fact, I feel my main life task is to learn to love and trust myself unconditionally. Through my reading life, I have discovered the eternal life of the soul, reincarnation, the human experience described as a school to […]
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