The world is all brand new today, with a shining new light in it. My friends RB Morris and Karly Stribling brought home their 2-day old daughter Oona Pearl, all 6.6 pounds of her. This girl is born into so much love. RB and Karly each express the rarest kind of
A few nights ago I watched the movie, The Time Traveler’s Wife. I was in an exhausted zone in my head and had had a glass of wine with dinner, so was vulnerable to an altered state of consciousness already. While the movie played, in my half-dream state I kept
One of my “big” dreams, as Jung called them, a lifetime dream, occurred 20-some years ago. In it a woman came up to me with great respect and said, “Divine Mother told me you have the blue thunder in the heart.” She seemed to know what that meant and be
I started a cleanse yesterday. No coffee, meat, dairy, sugar, alcohol or animal product of any kind for 3 weeks – that’s the plan. I am a woman of habit so this will be challenging, but I know it is the right thing to do to detoxify my body. It’s spring
Just as I was awakening today the title of the recent Academy Award’s Best Picture winner “The Hurt Locker” came into my mind. Such a powerful movie. I didn’t catch how it got its name, but the words in the title started turning around in my head – hurt locker, the lockers where we store our
Today is the Spring Equinox. Equinox is one of the two moments during a year when there are exactly as many minutes of light as there are dark in the day. In the spring equinox we turn toward longer days and more light.
My thoughts, dreams, experiences and conversations of late have me reflecting on
This has been the winteriest of wintery winters for almost everyone from everywhere that I have spoken to. I have been telling my friends that I will believe spring is coming when I see it, but not before. The almanac, which has been eerily accurate, says the biggest storm of the winter
It was Carl Jung’s theory that an angel, if suppressed, becomes a demon. Rilke spoke of it too.
I have just finished trying to catch up on the news of the week. I DVR the news, so on busy weeks I sometimes go through several days all at once. Ouch. It can hurt. In tonight’s
March 17th. The birthday of my first real love, a boyfriend who died tragically at a young age. It’s an Irish kind of story. They always include the vivid reality of heartache along with the deepest joys and love of life. May the soul of this lovely person who awakened
Yesterday I wrote about the musicians who had come from Ireland to play in my home and my friends who had come from every which way to join them. The thing is, if any of us had been using our heads last evening wouldn’t have happened. John and Claire wouldn’t have