PILGRIMAGE IN A PANDEMIC
April 1, 2020meditation,pilgrimageSelf-Care Discoveries Blog
do the neighbors up the street think me strange for going a few times a day to stand under their tree? for looking up under it at the pink and blue at the birds that swim through at the…
BOTH / AND
March 30, 2020meditationSelf-Care Discoveries Blog
BOTH / AND at 12:15pm, i sit in my living room (same thing every day) at 4pm, something different every day (dancing in my living room yesterday, tai chi / qigong in my backyard today...naked feet,…
a whole world
March 30, 2020meditation,THE ALLsongs
even when feeling incomplete, a whole world unto oneself -- Brian Shircliff
grief: because to return to old ways of life only leads to death
March 27, 2020yoga,meditationSelf-Care Discoveries Blog
i grieve i grieve the ill the dead those who care for them for those who wish they did i grieve for ones who have not yet awakened that this is a brand new day but most of all i grieve my life, for…
DAY ZERO, YEAR ZERO
March 23, 2020self-care,awakening,meditationSelf-Care Discoveries Blog
DAY ZERO, YEAR ZERO Something in me knew I needed to finish this book I had begun over a year ago . . . When We Rise by activist Cleve Jones. In it, Jones chronicles his ‘life in the movement’ for…
a new friend?
March 17, 2020self-care,meditation,nature,THE ALLSelf-Care Discoveries Blog
i enjoy one of winter’s last night-time skies a new season dawning arriving unfurling herself — life! and yet so much of me all human life (?) wants a bug to die (I fear it too) disrupting slowing…
Francis and the leper, an invitation to reflect these days of COVID-19
March 15, 2020compassion,love,meditation,a new way forwardsongs
how much easier to understand… how profound it was for Francis to stop in the land outside the safe-walls of his village get off his high-horse draw near to a man — to this man who was made to……
the steady growth of life
March 14, 2020poem,reflection,naturesongs
to think that this year we’ll be better able to watch hear feel the steady growth of life everywhere ‘round, and within -- Brian Shircliff
push, push, push with all your lonely might
March 13, 2020poem,reflection,naturesongs
push, push, push with all your lonely might — or realize remember there’s a greater (earth)force behind you -- Brian Shircliff
retreat, restore, re-vision...
March 12, 2020Feldenkrais Method,retreat,gentle movement,videoSelf-Care Discoveries Blog
As our Ohio governor was announcing wisely the closing of schools, we had decided to close VITALITY through at least March 23 with an aim toward health and safety for us all. And as I went outside to…