A Mother There. And Here.

In the heav’ns are parents single? No, the thought makes reason stare! Truth is reason; truth eternal tells me I’ve a mother there. ~ Eliza R. Snow . Part 1 The Motherless Child My first concrete experience of the divine feminine happened about twenty years ago when I was mourning the loss of my mom. This mourning was...

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Brethren and Cistern

May 06, 13 Brethren and Cistern

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Mother’s Day is coming. I’ve heard it called Mothering Day and I like that better. We each experience mothering differently. Some of us don’t have children, yet we mother. Some raise children born to other mothers. Some of us are motherless children either literally or figuratively. Whatever Mothering Day brings...

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Reverse Resurrection

Mar 30, 13 Reverse Resurrection

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  Art is exploratory, and begins in a place of not knowing. Like all expression, it is predicated on risk and vulnerability – on partial information, on hope. As often as I write to know, I spend equal time writing to unknow –  to complicate and to question. Indeed, at the center of any good poem is an...

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Chrysalis

Mar 29, 13 Chrysalis

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      Chrysalis  < read by Melody   Three days of white threads wound fine around around.   Three days of light shrouded linen fine white light woven.   Three days of . . .                Where hast thou laid him?   And she thought Are his wings still wet?   When he said Touch...

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Heavenly Mother Sings

      Heavenly Mother Sings  < read by Melody   hymns hidden in the heart melodies we hum nursing babies   wind in the garden– music made of grape vines cherry blossoms.   ballad of comfort in sea-swell for sailors thrown to knees requiem on mountain top for climbers grown cold–   She...

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