Posts under ‘Spirituality’

One Year Later

My one year dreadiversary is today. While I can’t believe it went by so fast, I also can’t believe I’ve only had dreadlocks for one year. I can’t seem to imagine a time before them and I can’t seem to imagine myself without them. I can see myself with long grey dreads and wrinkles and [...]

Right Here, Right Now

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I love the sweet smell of dawn -
our unique daily opportunity to smell time,
to smell opportunity -
each morning being, a new beginning.
~Emme Woodhull-Bäche
I’ve been waking up early, as soon as the sun turns my bedroom walls orange, and enjoying the peacefulness that only 6am can offer in this house. I start my tea on the [...]

Inhale, Exhale, Create, Be Quiet

I’m sitting here drinking the only kind of wine I’ve ever enjoyed (a local wine available at Lee’s if you must know) and feeling like I’m about to write a very rambling and divergent post. But aren’t they sometimes the best – to read or to write – when we can find this one common [...]

Slow Dancing

 
This week marks the second pregnancy I’ve lost in six months. Both times I felt early on that something was amiss and braced myself for the worst. But no amount of bracing can prepare your heart for such a devastation as this.
I’ve dealt with the awareness of secondary infertility for six years now. It’s been [...]

Life at the Current Moment

Full Moon Rising over Las Vegas, originally uploaded by OrganicSister.
I’m feeling much better these last few days. Perhaps in verbalizing what I was before internalizing (or denying), I’ve just given myself permission to be less than perfect. Which in turn takes off a whole lot of pressure.
Making that list about me – the things I [...]