Category: Personal Reflections
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Witch Quest, Week 1: Manifesting Intentions: A Morning Spell
This week, start each day with a morning spell to manifest what you want to create in your life.
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Night Wind Yearning
The wild wind sings to me Through the homespun gaps In my self-made shelter. She reminds me if the mysteries Out there In the dark And beckons me to ride the night To let loose the storm And disperse my soul Into the vast unknown.
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How Do We Know?
How do we know that the human mind communicates in a manner more refined or reasons better than any other living kind? How do we know that fauna or flora don’t have a more complex means or a wordless method that far surpasses the inconsistent hums, hisses, grunts, and gasses that we, the people,…
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Grief
There is a gaping hole at my core. My loss is a whirlpool dragging my thoughts into the vortex. I am wounded from the inside out. There is no cure. The damage is chronic. My life goes on, if my heart has stopped in its tracks.
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Tranquility
In silence there are answers that can’t be heard but must be felt by a heart free of distractions, like sound or motion. In stillness you can see what was there all along; you can learn what you know but forgot in the rushing…
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Halfling
The air is thick with dusk and grey Shadows in the twilight Lit with stars near and hovering Like a lamp glowing through a study window Dark outside in the crisp air Where you can touch the universe But safe in the golden light. Once upon my parent’s big bed I nestled under my father’s…
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Autosomnia
I love driving through neighborhoods at night,Looking into golden windows and wondering about the folks inside.Are they smartly sipping martinis like Hepburn and Tracy,Or in anguished conflict like Stella and Stanley,In the Rockwellian warmth of familial togetherness,Or each in retreat to a Hopperesque refuge?If I met them on the street tomorrow,Would I guess what they…
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Mental Stalagmites on Dialogue and Connection
I seldom have the type of dramatic, cathartic, life-changing epiphanies that Hollywood has branded as true insight. I’m talking about the kind of experience where a beam of light breaks through the clouds and bathes me in golden sunshine while a choir sings and doves fly blissfully overhead. No, my insights are more like a…
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Deep in the Spirit
Falling gently, deep in the spirit. Never landing, safely suspended On the breath of this infinite moment. There was no beginning. There will be no end. There is, always, only now.
Communicating Authentically 