Yesterday I wrote about the song singing over the earth, using Rilke’s words. The feeling from that writing stayed with me all day. Today a lovely woman who regularly comes up to the mountain to do one day retreats with me was here for one of our days together. We talked
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Above the change and the loss,
father and freer,
your singing continues,
god of the lyre.
How can we embrace our sorrows
or learn how to love,
or see what we lose
when we die? Only your song
over the earth
honors our life and makes it holy.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
Rilke has long been a favorite poet, and quotes from
Over the weekend I saw Avatar for the second time, accompanying a friend who really wanted to see it. Themes in the movie resonate with much of what I have worked on for the last decade. The book I am writing, as yet untitled, is a re-writing of my doctoral
Today, January 15, 2010, I write my first blog post ever. First New Moon of the year and the decade, a new beginning. I am a doctor of depth psychology and have a retreat center, Bridging Worlds, in the remote, gorgeous, ancient mountains of Western North Carolina outside of Asheville.