Category Archives: Consciousness

A Word To Live By

Posted on January 14, 2019 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 →

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To Write a Terzanelle: Challenge by Jilly

Posted on December 7, 2018 by

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 →

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“…the poem which i do not write”

Posted on November 21, 2018 by

 (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 →

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POETICS: In the Service of Sophia

Posted on October 16, 2018 by

Poetic storytelling is humanity’s oldest, most effective teaching tool.  Imagine words as boxes, each one stuffed with multi–dimensional worlds of meaning.  The words act as a kind of shorthand to relay bits of condensed information – facts.  Poetry pries open … Continue reading →

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Eros

Posted on March 14, 2018 by

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 →

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ARRIVAL

Posted on January 14, 2017 by

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 →

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Crisis and Opportunity

Posted on November 14, 2016 by

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 →

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Amantha Murphy’s Magical Mystery Tour

Posted on July 8, 2015 by

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 →

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NaPoWriMo #17 YIKES!!!

Posted on April 17, 2015 by

  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 →

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Another Word on Nonsense…

Posted on August 22, 2014 by

“The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.” ~e.e. cummings Archetypically, nonsense can be thought of as one of the Trickster’s devices. The Trickster, as you may know, manifests mythically in dozens of cultures around the world. In Jungian terms the trickster … Continue reading →

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