All Day We Spoke of Loving All day we spoke of loving Loving beyond reason Reason for feeling obsessed Obsessed but not overly so So we gaze at one another Another day to explore Explore each other and the land Land, that just feels sacred Sacred because of beauty’s kiss Kiss me now before the…
Think about it. What if you are the Oracle you are seeking? So many of us running around looking for THE teacher/healer/therapist/shaman that has the answers we seek. (I am no exception at times.) You KNOW the answers are within you. Yet many of us don’t know how to GET IN to find them. Do…
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any ~ Alice Walker This Red Thread Letter shares my thoughts about this topic, drawn from 25 years of working with women and children in the domain of creativity. My intention in sharing it is to provide a context for…
“There is a vitality, a life-force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action. And because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium, and be lost. The world will not have it. It…
A tribute to misfits: A fictional creative writing about people who have walked on to the other side. Some passed from suicide, others from disease and age, others from addiction and some might have just been a mistake. I am definitely not in the ‘everything happens for a reason’ camp. I mean no disrepect, I…
Venus and the Gulf of Poets I should like to meet you here Here in the Gulf of Poets Poets who by day sit by the bay Bay filled with enchanted songs Songs which speak of what came before Before all of this, what to make of this This place where temple-turned-church Church of the…
We have long worn our scars on the inside, hidden within ourselves Doing our best to hide, to not allow them to show up on the outside We didn’t want to be exposed, judged, blamed and not believed Our souls bear the marks of re-membering what was lost We have been shaped, girdled, silenced, fragmented…
“You may have the universe if I may have Italy” ~ Giuseppe Verde Cafe In Italy + Love Note to come back to the basics of time with yourself Click here to watch on Facebook Click here to watch on Vimeo Dear One, Full Moon Greetings from Italy! I feel so grateful to be…
Decide who you are going to be and do it on purpose – Dolly Parton When one of my colleagues asked about COW, the name that Color of Woman is often called, and how Cosmic Cowgirls came to be named that, I thought I should write down the story and the roots going back to…
Our ancestors wrote the stories on the cave walls in images, stitched them into clothing, wove them into rugs, painted them on pottery and enacted dramas and songs to live the legends into the future. They worked with image. When we remove image making from the culture, we then are subject to the images and…