by heather | May 20, 2012 | Reflections
These excerpts are from letters to friends in Canada during our trip to Brazil in April and May 2012 April 15 For the past few days I have felt the urge to tell some stories but have not known where to start, and certainly not how they will end! But the uncertainty is...
by heather | Dec 20, 2011 | Reflections
Dark days – literally – with the winter solstice tomorrow. We are all sleeping more and I feel the enfolding quality of darkness, a season of wrapping up, keeping close, making room to brood and ponder and prepare for clarity by making space in the night....
by heather | Apr 10, 2011 | Reflections
Fluid and burning oxygen. Fire to act in a system of open river. Movement within stillness. Acknowledging the pain in my muscles and the spacious open freedom in the cells. Like Gaia conscious of all her trillions of manifestations, I can send love and good intention...
by heather | Apr 10, 2011 | Reflections
There is so much “becoming” energy in my life right now – the children growing weekly, the business changing, my body changing, the landscape melting… I can embrace all this flow without letting mind move ahead. Can let the mind focus on...
by heather | Apr 10, 2011 | Reflections
Allowed myself to briefly want – really WANT – freedom from pain. Am so schooled to think pain is inevitable and that wanting freedom from it is somehow immature, misguided, even selfish. And yet I am able to hear that lesson – that pain is...
by heather | Apr 10, 2011 | Reflections
I realized that these “mountaintop experiences” are about briefly seeing a variety of other peaks… and noticing the broad and obstacle-filled and pastoral valleys. We descend and play in the fields and get lost in the fogs and ascend again, sometimes...
