California Chronicles: Part 3
And Oh, California, I had all of these plans for us. For you to be sunny skied with sparkling blue water that reminds me of what’s sacred, ocean crashing alongside […]
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California Chronicles: Part 2
I sat there two days into the workshop, with smoke snaking its way high and low around us on the california coastline, the landscape having become the silent bearer of […]
California Chronicles: Part 1
Mist in the morning. Hawk Hover. I stood in the shower that morning with unpolished toes on thin worn linoleum, thinking maybe this was the contraction before the expansion. Twisting […]
Marking Time
I sat there at my wooden desk last Friday morning, long slow drawl of summer slightly audible in mid-July, as if it too was asking me in, inviting my body to […]
Concrete & Cypress
It’s an imperfect science, really. The way it’s putting water on the stove to boil for dinner at 8:23pm, while you stand there in the bathroom sopping up wet Monday […]
And then time?
And then time? It expanded open enough between 12:45pm as I sat at the Public Garden Swan Pond feeling an effervescent fullness in my heart after teaching and 1:50pm as […]
The Nourished
And it seemed that everyone I walked and ran by that morning was smiling, as if to cheer the world on, and welcome in the subtle stirrings of their own inner revolution.
Spaces
And so maybe the reality is that is life feels uncomfortable and confusing, we know we’re doing it right. I was elated, relieved, partially skin-satiated in anticipating my journey to […]
Surrender & Flow
“Not all those who wander are lost.” ~J.R.R. Tolkien
Grace, Guts & Spirit
Her hamstrings reached out over the ground, grateful for the cool sensation of an earthen surface. Heels pressing down into the dampness of leaves and fallow land as her back […]
Lindsey O'Neill 