Anger is always the enemy, the deadly force that you must hide or tether to piety like a runaway horse. Hot flaming anger burns through your body like blazing coals. Seething rolling anger bubbles below the surface like a geyser of sulphurous hurt and frustration. But anger also signals that a boundary has been crossed, …
Did you notice that we’re not allowed to talk about God anymore. Do you see how people look at you with confusion, slight derision and pity. Oh dear, you’re one of those people who still believes in a ‘higher power’, a bearded man on a cloud up there somewhere. They laugh and smirk. Didn’t you …
When all the old grandmother trees have goneWho will hold the land’s memoriesWhen all the old grandmother trees have goneWho will remind us about the learned mistakes of the pastWhen all the old grandmother trees have goneWho will sustain the verdant web that binds us all to the EarthWhen all the old grandmother trees have …
Chapter 1I remember as a child how often I wanted to gather up my consciousness and rise right up out of my body. I didn’t want to be here, couldn’t understand the rules the grown ups played, and why I couldn’t just be me. “It’s because we love you – that we lock you up …
I had a bad dream last night and my Shadow Sister came to stay. She does that from time to time. Her siren call is a turbulent sky, the shock of bad news, or an unkind word from a friend – she loves them all. Moves right on in. ‘Shut the curtains, lock the door, …
The Sun said hello to me today, and warmed my heart with Love. He looked into my eyes and said ‘Let me tell you the story of how it all began’, and the world went dark. In the beginning of time God looked out into the void and saw only One, perfection. ‘How can I …
Today I am weary and overwhelmed. It doesn’t matter that I’ve been told that I wanted to be here, that I signed up for this. On days like these my desires are much simpler than that. On days like these I want the churning waters of my negative thoughts to be calm, to be still. …
I found my voice at the end of a pen,and I’m afraid of the words it has to say.I don’t understand the source that flows through them.I want to shoo them awaylike ducklings scattering from their mother’s sideas a bike zips by on the tow path. How do I know if what I sayhas any …
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to close your eyes and dissolve into everything and nothing, cell by cell, atom by atom. Have you ever wanted to feel yourself disappear unnoticed while silently observing bodies move from this quantum space to that. If I draw my eyelids down and go deep inside …
When did my life become a list of to-dos,of timesheets, contingencies,attempts to please yous.Don’t relax, check your exits, must stay on your guard.There might a test, a review, stiff report card,which shows where you’re slacking,behind, below par,a nuisance, incompetent, disruptive behaviour. Don’t rest for a minute or take time out for a drink.Don’t you dare …