Twice a year we get to experience the balance between day and night, darkness and light. Equinox is a moment in time that offers a glimpse into equilibrium. Many people treat balance as a goal. #balance #lifegoal But let’s face it - balance only exists here and there for a split second, and then it tips over towards more of one thing, and less of another. Equilibrium is a state in which polar energies are balanced. It offers the [...]
This morning the kids were fighting during yoga. Kesem was really upset because Shefa wasn’t practicing with us. She cried and yelled. He wanted to do his own thing and she couldn’t accept it. They played beautifully later. She read to him. And they built things. They made art. They hugged a lot. We still have lots of food. Although I’m starting to feel Anxious about what’s coming next. Will the stores stay open? The box of vegetables [...]
My Mom thinks that covid-19 came here for her. Like the angel of death showing up at your doorstep - “It’s time to come with me.” He whispers from within his dark cloak. Not a hint of a smile, she continues and explains how this virus affirms all of HER anxiety. SHE has always known her biggest fears were going to come true. This global crisis is happening to HER. Glued to the TV, she hasn’t really left the house [...]
It was hard to get out of bed this morning. Dark and cold outside. I wanted to get up before everyone else, so that I can have a moment for myself to meditate, but it didn’t happen. So I meditated with the kids staring at me. They tried to be quiet, but most of the time they forgot about the quiet contract that they signed when they decided to sit on the couch in the living room while I meditated. [...]
Slowing the fuck down. I am a much nicer mama when we’re not in a rush. No plans. No place we must get to. No certain time to do anything. I feel like I’m spirling gently through a different galaxy, light years away from here, someplace that isn’t quite a place. Maybe it once was. Maybe it will be. But for now, it is a space, with particles and possibilities. Suspendant. Uprooted. And more grounded than I have been in [...]
Somewhere between fear and disregarding the facts. Somewhere between dismissing the seriousness of the situation and total panic. Between freaking out and mocking the freak out. Between hysteria and being cautious. Somewhere between believing everything the media says and believing it’s all a conspiracy. Between blaming it all on pharmaceutical companies and desperately begging for a test. Between the lies of the president and the truth smacking us in the face. Somewhere between sheets of toilet paper, on top of [...]
She’s sitting on the bench by the dinning table, hair a little messy, lots of missing teeth, a crazy wide spread of artist markers - a hundred and twenty colors and shades, to be exact. She’s working on an elephant. Fifteen shades of gray. Muse-struck. “Mama?” her eyes are focused on the curving lines of her elephant trunk. “Yes, my love.” “I have all these bad thoughts in my head.” The trunk she’s working on is playfully [...]
Whether he dances in the forest of my heart, howls in the dark nights of my soul, meditates on mountain tops inside my head, retreats to his cave, takes the seat of the teacher, or roams the cremation grounds of my life’s deaths, Siva is by far my favorite masculine deity. (not a gender thing, but rather a code, an energy, a coalition of qualities) I am a sucker for metaphor. Myths and archetypes help me understand myself [...]
To light up fire in the heart of love. To practice devotion. To be devoted to practice. To domesticate the beast. To rewild the mother. To weave the erotic and the ascetic into the fabric of intimacy. To be an animal, a fierce fire, and an artist. To worship the cycles of darkness and light. To breathe into the darkness of night And dream the sparkles in its infinite sky to life. To wish. To renegotiate visions. To reconfigure intentions. [...]
It’s time to stir things up. Earth is spinning and this northern half of the planet is beginning to receive more light. It grows slowly, not rushing in with bells on. It’s just slowly gaining momentum. With it comes hope. Once upon a time when we lived more attuned to the cycles of the planet, sunlight was life force. We’re halfway through Winter, and halfway towards Spring. The sun is getting stronger. With it the earth regenerates life as [...]
