Black people are being MURDERED by police EVERY GODDAMN DAY and it is being sanctioned by the state while white folk turn a blind eye to blatant,systemic racism in the United States. Indigenous people are peaceably protesting to protect our water, which, when last I checked, is essential… Read More
Image: Deus Ex Machina by Amoret
8 of Wands Reversed – swift, unseen change
There is a worm at the heart of the tower; that is
why it will not stand.
Neil Gaiman, Instructions
In retrospect, I can see in my own life what I could not see at the time: how the job I lost helped me find work I needed to do, how the “road closed” sign turned me toward terrain I needed to travel, how losses that felt irredeemable forced me to discern meanings I needed to know. On the surface it seemed that life was lessening, but silently and lavishly the seeds of new life were always being sown. ~ Parker J. Palmer, Autumn: To Cohere in Mysterious Unity
Image: Autumn Leaves by Seth Stoll – some rights reserved
I’m taking an online class from Pema Chodron, one of my beloved teachers. There’s a ton of great information to absorb (way more than I can probably absorb in one 6-week class) but the question she recently asked has stuck with me: Am I the… Read More
When Change Comes Slowly Pick up the stones one at a time. Build your monument toward a kneeling sky. © 2013 Amoret BriarRose. All rights reserved. Image: Very Wobbly Inukshuk by Ruth Hartnup – some rights reserved
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