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ever so timely!
Posted on April 18, 2012 via Magical Realisms with 4 notes
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Clarissa Pinkola Estes is my Fairy Godmother
Read Women Who Run With The Wolves, by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. It’s one of my all time favorite reads, and will nourish your spirit like no other book! The lovely typed out note above was sent to me in a package by my dear friend Thea, who is also a wild woman!
Ellie gave me my first copy of this book, a pocket paperback version of it that our friend Jenn’s mom had originally purchased. Jenn had retrieved it from her mom, Ellie had acquired it from Jenn and then sent it to me when I was living on a vegan farm in upstate New York. The first story I read in that book was the story of the Red Shoes. It struck me in such a deep way that I was afraid to read the rest of the book. Months later I picked it back up and read it cover to cover, reminded of the deepest wisdoms that I had consciously forgotten, yet knew in my body.
The book remains sacred to me and I never travel without it.
Dr. Estes is a blogger for the National Catholic Reporter and 2 years ago she sent me an email in response to a comment I made on one of her posts. I was so elated that I was walking on air for weeks after. I’m aware that she is just one person, with one point of view, but, there aren’t many book-reading experiences I can credit with saving my spiritual life and reviving my relationship with my body and my creativity. So, yeah, she’s special. She’s Ellie’s Fairy Godmother and I always think of her as my Earth Mama, for she was instrumental in teaching me how to be a woman. Thanx CPE!
Posted on March 30, 2012 via Magical Realisms with 2 notes
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Projections change the world into the replica of one’s own unknown face.
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My first ever queen size bed quilt. I made this from Denyse Schmidt’s Single Girl pattern. It was laborious and I asked myself why the fuck I was doing it plenty of times. I also thought surely it was a bust as I worked through the piecing, thinking I was being too sloppy. But now that it’s done I think it’s just perfect. Wonky at parts but ultimately the order of the design is clear. It took me 9 months to complete. I love this quilt.
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It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living. Because we are alone with the unfamiliar presence that has entered us; because everything we trust and are used to is for a moment taken away from us; because we stand in the midst of a transition where we cannot remain standing. That is why the sadness passes: the new presence inside us, the presence that has been added, has entered our heart, has gone into its innermost chamber and is no longer even there, - is already in our bloodstream. And we don’t know what it was. We could easily be made to believe that nothing happened, and yet we have changed, as a house that a guest has entered changes. We can’t say who has come, perhaps we will never know, but many signs indicate that the future enters us in this way in order to be transformed in us, long before it happens. And that is why it is so important to be solitary and attentive when one is sad: because the seemingly uneventful and motionless moment when our future steps into us is so much closer to life than that other loud and accidental point of time when it happens to us as if from outside. The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadnesses, the more deeply and serenely the new presence can enter us, and the more we can make it our own, the more it becomes our fate.
Rainer Maria Rilke(via guerrillamamamedicine)
Posted on February 26, 2012 via red moon child with 33 notes
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Posted on February 23, 2012 via Magical Realisms with 14 notes
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The drama queens are a little more dangerous, because sooner or later you’ll “betray” them and become a character in the stories that they bore someone else with. When they finally snap, go cold. Don’t apologize, engage or grovel. If there’s one thing I wish I’d learned at 18, it’s that it’s okay if a crazy person hates you. Everyone else will understand in time. Meanwhile, let them expend that energy. Go work on your novel or whatever.
from Choire Sicha’s Advice For Young People(via guerrillamamamedicine)
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Rashani “There is a Brokenness”Posted on January 26, 2012 via A Sea of Quotes with 571 notes
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Rainer Maria Rilke, Selected Poems of Rainer Maria RilkePosted on January 23, 2012 via A Sea of Quotes with 487 notes
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan PoePosted on January 20, 2012 via Booklover with 212 notes
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