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Category Archives: Consciousness
A Word To Live By
I received a prompt today from De Jackson at the dVerse Poets Pub. He suggested “change” as the topic for a forty-four word quadrille. Ha! Who couldn’t write a book on this topic? You might as well tell us to … Continue reading
Posted in Consciousness, dVerse, Poetry, quadrille, wisdom, Writing
Tagged Change, dVerse, quadrille
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To Write a Terzanelle: Challenge by Jilly
Our times are so fraught. Whether at home, on a bus or hanging at the dVerse, I haven’t had a conversation in years that doesn’t circle back to the state of the union and leave everyone distraught. The huge anger … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Consciousness, dVerse, Poetry, Politics, Writing
Tagged "Death by a thousand cuts", dispossessed, dVerse, racism, terzanelle
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“…the poem which i do not write”
(title from poem xvii by e.e. cummings) Rumi is a long time favorite of mine. His love poems speak often of desire, as does the Judeo-Christian Song of Solomon. Religious apologists say that the use of erotica in these and other … Continue reading
Posted in Consciousness, Desire, dVerse, Eros, Herstory, Poetry, wisdom
Tagged desire, dVerse, erotica, poetry, Rumi, spirituality, The Naked Man
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Eros
If I could start over, knowing what I know now, I would go back to school and study that endlessly fascinating, miraculous amalgam of bone and flesh, mind and psyche, soul and spirit – the body. Not just my body. … Continue reading
Posted in Archetype, Consciousness, Desire, Eros, Love
Tagged Eros, Gnosis, Hildegard of Bingen, love, Makeda, Marc Chagall, Queen of Sheba, sacred marriage, sensuality, Song of Songs, St. Teresa of Avila
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ARRIVAL
I’ve seen Arrival twice now. It’s the kind of movie I wanted to share. After seeing it myself, I had to take two of my favorite folks so they too could delight in this incredibly intriguing, suspenseful, atmospheric movie about … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Consciousness, Film Review, Poetry, Thought, Uncategorized
Tagged aliens, Amy Adams, Arrival, creativity, Denis Villeneuve, Earth, mind, movies, respect, septapods, space, thinking
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Crisis and Opportunity
Today, pondering the election, I am reflecting on the notion that in Chinese calligraphy “disaster” combines the symbols for “crisis” and “opportunity.” As it turns out this is a mistaken notion, but one that swept meme-like through western culture with … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Consciousness, Politics
Tagged capitalism, common ground. Trump, crisis, daily practice, fortune cookies, good-will, Hillary, Mr. Suyeichi, opportunity
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Amantha Murphy’s Magical Mystery Tour
I’ve just returned from a pilgrimage to some of Ireland’s early sacred sites, travelling with a coterie of amazing women whose companionship proved invaluable in enhancing profound interactions with the wells, cairns, barrows, henges, mounds and temples of our ancestors. Shared knowledge, stories, memories, visions … Continue reading
Posted in Circle, Community, Consciousness, Gratitude, Meaning, Myth, Women
Tagged Amantha Murphy, Brigit, Inis Faithlinn, Ireland, Priestess Pilgrimage, ritual, sacred wells, spiritual practice
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NaPoWriMo #17 YIKES!!!
Virtual Reality Solipsism: a theory in philosophy that your own existence is the only thing that is real or can be known. I will live but eighty years or so. The Jurassic measured roughly fifty million, not to … Continue reading
Posted in Consciousness, Daily Prompt, NaPoWriMo, Poetry
Tagged NaPoWriMo, National Poetry Month, poetry, selfie, solipsism
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