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For All The Marys
And how the dominating forces that we are facing now, that wish to stifle the self-actualization, intuition, intelligence, and power of non-maternal feminine autonomy have always been there.
And have always been resisted.
Community Group Work in the Boston Globe
‘Group whisperer’ Martha Crawford aims to help Americans revive in-person engagement skills that have gone dormant.
The Dreaming Soul
Religion is just as good a psychology as our scientific psychology is a doctrine of the soul which it denies. ~ Rank
And Their Wings Touched Each Other
I need to take a breath sometimes.
I need a birds-eye, angel-eye, cosmic-view sometimes.
Just for a moment, so I can keep going.
Point Vierge
Then one by one they wake up and become birds. They manifest themselves as birds, beginning to sing. Presently they will be fully themselves and even fly.
~ Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, Thomas Merton
A Common Center
Healthy community groups are circles of peers who (metaphorically) stand around a common center – a cause, a value, a belief system, an identity, a mission, a challenge, a shared story, or experience. The center is their shared concern, the deeper purposes of their gathering together.
New Instruments
The reverberations bring about a change of being.
~ Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
A Mother’s Curse
Progenitors, creators and the earth have been too patient for far too long.
Beware a Mother’s Curse.
Trivial Pursuits
One can try to think, feel, experience and communicate everything, but the moment such expressions see the light of day they are robbed of their significance and meaning and are thrown in the dump. - Dorothee Soelle
Our Temptations
The virulent demons that are inhabiting you are not grotesque little monsters with thrashing tales. They are illusions, stories you are telling yourself that are utterly fallacious; bizarre and fantastic lies which you nevertheless believe, and which consequently are taking your life from you.
~ Martin Bell, The Way of the Wolf
Always Be With You: On Chronicity and Shared Predicaments
Predicaments are unfolding processes that ask us move and compensate through oscillating cycles and seasons, adjusting our stance and calibrating our response to a living, shifting, transforming landscape on a daily basis.