by Rebecca | Jan 9, 2017 | The Creative Cycle
What is hibernating within you? We begin anew. We’ve just emerged from the darkest part of the year. The decayed fruit of last year’s experience is sloughed off, and we’ve traversed the night into the first breaking of the dawn, a thin, cool sliver of light guiding us...
by Rebecca | Jan 7, 2017 | Dharma: Life Purpose + Sacred Work, Walk the Path of Your Soul
It’s been there all along. One flight down There’s a song on low And it’s been there Playing all along. Now you know. Now you know. —Nora Jones I’ve always loved those lyrics. To me, this is how wisdom makes itself known. It rolls in like a song…and when we can...
by Rebecca | Jan 2, 2017 | The Creative Cycle, Trust Your Inner Wisdom
Embrace Nothingness This—this practice, this time of year—is liminal space. The space in between. The gap, bardo. If you look, if you listen, there is a gap, a moment of still silence in everything. Between the mantra is the breath. Between the mantra and the breath...
by Rebecca | Dec 11, 2016 | Trust Your Inner Wisdom
Kali is Love and She has a Sword. Since the U.S. Presidential election, friends and I have talked about the relationship between compassion and conceding. This is my reflection upon that conversation. (Kali is an aspect of the Divine from the Vedic and Hindu...
by Rebecca | Dec 4, 2016 | The Creative Cycle
Twilight When we drove into New England from our cross country trip, I had a visceral recognition of being home, in a way that no where else can be home. I’m a New Englander. My body, my being knows this: New England is in me. I was happy living away. Happier even....
