Posts Tagged ‘ resilience ’

Everything deepens along the way

             Knit one, pearl two.  Drop a stitch here and there.  Pick up another.  There’s many ways to get back into a pattern of being.  I just never realized that some patterns could be so far flung and take so long to hook up to again.  Who knew?  I guess you don’t always.  But...

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the right wave

Everything is Buddha-full in its own way-ay  I can’t help but be silly today  Pronouncements are bounding out of my fingertips before I can censor them.  Maybe it’s the season. Summer is a release from winter pushed by the green green fuse of spring. Sure, that’s a lot like Dylan Thomas.  What is more...

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from Natal Catalyst

             I wonder whether I received a primal push the way someone launches a boat into the water.  Or if this natal catalyst is something that has influenced the direction I’ve been going in ever since I got started.  I mean from way back when.  Wouldn’t that be something?  Whether the catalyst turns out...

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La vie en wetlands

It started out just as Yeats had said. It was about work and the grind and the difficulties and the schedule and the lack of freedom and everything that doesn’t feel like anything you want with the exception of the paycheck. If you’ve been there and done that, then this could be your signature...

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Passports

Passports  I want to tell you about Louise Bourgeois and the trees shaped by the cold.  The trees are called krummholz.  Their roots look like old sirens, remind me of Louise.  A picture of the krummholz up on the side of my printer also shows their roots.  When I saw a picture of Louise...

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Broken china

I save the China my mother loved. Older women easily recognize the Johnstone rose pattern. I even save the dishes when they break. I remember when my mother got into redecorating our small dining room on Fabian Place in Newark.  She never did anything like this before.  She picked out a showy, striped shade...

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Foggy days of spring

Woke up to a great fog coming up the hill and crossing the boundary onto my property line. Some things know no borders and that’s a good thing. Wish peace and all good things were like that. Waxing sentimental. Would have should have put “sentimental” as a tag on this site and several posts....

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Corkscrewed into being

Corkscrewed into being: Leah supposed that sooner or later people seek their own kind no matter how much they want to be alone.  Being alone is fine for a while.  Right now, she needed something else.  People brought this unknown quality out in her.  It might be something she’d never find peace with but...

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tell it like it is

Tell your story, your fears, your concerns, your love, your joy – but tell it like is and listen to yourself. Let the people around you know that you’re happy again or that love has found you or that your loss, the loss of your friend has gripped you so and you don’t know...

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Words can help

The thoughts and words of those that have written about grief and resilience can be a help. Sharing your story is a good first step. This site is about the transformation of our silent pain into a mosaic of shared realities.  We keep weaving our stories with the threads we have.  “Although words cannot...

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