Monthly Archives: March 2010

ANSWERING YOUR CALLING

Every single one of us has a calling.

Answering that calling is real medicine…while not answering often leads to illness and sorrow. Or even to the worse kind of illness: irrelevance…invisibility…listlessness…restlessness….despair…

Now you and I know that just because we begin to listen and answer we will not be instantly whole and completely well! Poets, artists and musicians are evidence that following the call, however illuminating to the soul, does not mean miracle healing. No. But, there is a very palpable experience of healing for those of us who answer. As Martha Graham in a letter to Agnes De Mille says so well:

“There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action…” Continue reading

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A Free Thinking People

This is my feminism. That I might think the thoughts which I would like to think. Free from the frames of thinking which I have taken on. Conscious or unconscious. To have a free thought in which my own mind … Continue reading

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