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Ballad of a Hopeless Optimist – Twenty-Ten
Though the storms of doom will rage against our bright windows opened to the day
And the perils of Main street and Wall street bid us foreboding while we linger under feather coverlets
While the headlines glorify mayhem and madness, we shall leap forward with red shoes made for dancing
We, a people of an unreasonable dream, will not be undone. Our very bones are made for this bright longing.
This faith which against the odds of empty houses, white houses, houses of financial ill repute and houselessness.
This faith will see us through and cause us to throw open our doors to our futures and shout
DAY! We cometh forth from the depths of yester-year! We will wear orange dresses and feathered hats,
READY OR NOT! HERE WE COME!
And while we claim the wreckage still piling up in the junkyard of ‘soul work’ still to be done
We shall not be put under the tires of commerce or commercial or cynicism
We cannot be talked out of our joy! Continue reading
Filed under Poetry and Prose, Shiloh's Writings
We Sorrow! O Blessed Lady! A Prayer for Healing
Our world longs for healing
I know you hear our tears falling
The polar bear father groans for his children
The butterfly pauses too long on a wayward branch
The wolf mother considers if having cubs is a good idea
The salmon, bewildered swim in circles, aching with eggs
The blue bird of happiness seeks her mate, calling, calling…
The inch worm only attempts a quarter inch this morning
The depressed human, does not want to rise from sleep today Continue reading
Filed under Prayers, Shiloh's Writings
Interview with the Visionary Self – A 20 Minute Breakthrough Practice
The visionary self is really just you wearing your visionary lenses. It is you when you look deeply into your life and your heart with an intention to SEE beyond what is just “there” into what is possible. I believe all of us are visionaries and that we just need practice “being” visionary as it relates to our own life. So here is a little 20 Minute Breakthrough Practice to activate your visionary self!
The reason why this is a “breakthrough” is because by articulating your vision in your mind and heart, and then in writing – you shorten the distance between you and your vision considerably because you are taking time to “touch” the vision. Continue reading
Filed under Shiloh's Writings
How To Move A Mountain
How to Move a Mountain Not I but you, Sweet Lord know how to move through this terrain. A land swelling with rocks and mountains that to the naked eye and skeptical mind seems impossible. But your history in my … Continue reading
Filed under Poetry and Prose
Doing What There Is To Do and Something Else Too – A Hymn from the Moon
I left the curtains open last night in hopes that our bright moon would make her way, my way Finally she came, shining her search light into my room. The sky, cobalt and blackberry blue With black leave patterns silhouettes … Continue reading
Filed under Poetry and Prose
Mama’s Chickens – For Alice Walker
For Alice Walker Mama’s Chickens Sitting with her chickens she contemplates their work and their rest her beingness blessed by their beingness holding one golden eyed golden red feathered hen in her arms another one flies up perches on the … Continue reading
Filed under Poetry and Prose, Shiloh's Writings
This Is My Feminism: That I Think The Thoughts That I Want To Think
Living Journal
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. Continue reading
Filed under Revolution
Prayer To Our Lady of Blackberry Pie — A Plea for the Sacred Honeybee
Just ask the Queen Bee what is happening to her hives
Just ask the Mama Whale what is happening to her sea
Just ask the Empress Butterfly what has happened to her cocoons
Just as the Mama Frog what has happened to her shimmering legs
Just ask the Princess Salamander how far from home she has had to travel
Just ask the wolf, La Loba, what has happened to her wooded trail
Just ask the Salmon Mother why her children cannot make it up the river Continue reading
Filed under Prayers, Shiloh's Writings
Nuestra Senora de Chocolata – 10 Questions
? Question 9 of 10: We have a hard time making changes even when we know what we need to do, for our health, finances, relationships – we just keep making the same bad choices. Could we schedule a free humanity wide “tele-course?”
p.s. I am grateful for: chocolate. sunshine. the sound of my lover’s voice. Continue reading
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