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Out of My Mind, In My Body
As a young girl I always loved the swings. I would swing, tilting my head back as far as I could with my gaze fixed on the endless blue above me, until for a brief moment it would be the only thing in my sight. The wind filled my ears, and the neighbourhood began to Continue reading
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Will You Answer the Call?
Everyone gets the call. Everyone receives the invitation. There is is not a single one amongst us who has not received it. There are only two types of people. Those who respond and those who ignore. At first it come gently, its is a whisper, a dream, a trick of the light. Gone unheeded it Continue reading
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“Love is as love does”
“Love is the will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth… Love is as love does. Love is an act of will — namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love.” M. Scott PeckOur Continue reading
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Against Ourselves
“The way you get people to testify against themselves is not to have police tactics and oppressive techniques. What you do is build it in so people learn to distrust everything in themselves that has not been sanctioned, to reject what is most creative in themselves to begin with, so you don’t even need to Continue reading
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Signs on the Way
Cairns have been used across times and across cultures to mark places of deep significance. Places of veneration, signs on a path, food stores, mountain summits and hunting grounds. Cairns can be as small as a few feet high and as tall and as wide as hills.I once saw a man building a inuksuk/cairn at Continue reading
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Making a Spectacle of Ourselves
When the camera was first invented, many Indigenous peoples refused to be photographed, believing something of their souls would be stolen in the capturing of their image. And while a selfie may not literally snatch your soul there is something to be said for approaching new technologies with a certain wariness. An apprehension that most Continue reading
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Water
Water is the soft, the mysterious feminine. Yielding and flowing Pushed and pulled, pushing and pulling. Formless, and assuming of all forms. Still and fast. Dangerous and glorious. Water carves mountains and smoothes stones. It holds and expels. Water nurtures life but subsumes creatures whole. The water of the body is not unlike the water Continue reading
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Communing with Nature & “The Flash”
“It had always seemed to Emily, ever since she could remember, that she was very, very near to a world of wonderful beauty. Between it and herself hung only a thin curtain; she could never draw the curtain aside– but sometimes, just for a moment, a wind fluttered it and then it was as if Continue reading
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What Does it Mean to Heal?
The natural world is bursting with metaphor if you would only open your eyes and look. Lessons in nature are easy and flowing. The more you wander the more you find. And in stillness you will hear the music of the trees, the wind, the water and all the creatures, calling to you with their Continue reading
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Man vs. Machine
“No one confessed the Machine was out of hand. Year by year it was served with increased efficiency and decreased intelligence. The better a man knew his own duties upon it, the less he understood the duties of his neighbor, and in all the world there was not one who understood the monster as a Continue reading
Imagine to Remember 