Creative Meanderings

This weekend is a long one to celebrate the Prophet’s Ascension much like we rejoice in Christ’s rising for Easter. How they differ I don’t know…. Anyway, it has been a full weekend of socializing and a couple of late nights.  One evening we spent talking with a friend about human nature and our expectations of people. M and I often talk about our opposing starting points when it comes to people.  M…

In the same way that I feel as if there is something big about to happen to change the course of our current pattern, I also feel darkness boiling and bubbling underneath. I wonder if it is connected to the highs and lows that cycle through my brain. Or, perhaps it is the balance of the light and dark? I do not know, but I do know there are undercurrents happening…. And, I…

Our current political climate feels as if we have gone back in time to an era when women were objectified and respected for how they best serve their men. However, this feeling that we have gone backwards is a lie. The truth is that we never progressed. Instead, we merely sugar-coated, appeased and pretended that women have made progress in the world.  Sure, women have much more freedom than they ever had. Women…

One of the things that we talk a lot about in yoga philosophy is the idea of detachment. This refers to detaching from images, sense of identity, expectations on: self, people, results, etc., and even from others. Now some people dislike the interpretation of detaching from people because it may seem like a lonely or cold way to live, but perhaps that it itself is an attachment to some unknown idea of what…

Do you ever feel as if you are could possibly be walking the thin line between life and death? I do not mean this in the sense of suicide or premonitions of some dramatic accident occurring. I mean in the sense that perhaps some great awakening, change of a life season or maybe, yes, even actual death is about to happen to you. This is somewhat how I feel lately.  I feel as…