Why We Tell Stories (after Lisel Mueller)...
Category: life writing
Resurfacing (after David Whyte’s ‘Sweet Darkness’)...
Category: life writing
A Recipe For Change...
Category: life writing
unravel your stories, reclaim your voice
Category: life writing
Category: life writing
Category: life writing
you’re a woman of a certain stage
rediscovering yourself after years of
people-raising or projects
once immersed in the intensity of
tending others
you sense a new season approaching …
Because when we were small cells multiplying in the dark salt cave, we could hear muffled voices through the pounds of flesh and muscle (though we didn’t know what hearing was). Because we start life in the dark …
You do not have to be good, Mary says. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
And what does this soft animal body love?
the secret is to
the secret is to draw yourself a steaming hot bath
so hot it prickles your skin
add in the Epsom salts and the pink Himalayan …
I don’t want to go there—to the dark. I’ve crossed a threshold—remember the whole-body woosh of energy as it left. But I know it. Notebooks full of rushed wild writing. Words I couldn’t say to anyone because …
I started a fire in my dreams last night.
It was only small. A few bits of twigs and kindling. Portable. Somehow, I held it in my hands …