It’s probably no surprise to anyone who’s been in an intimate relationship that we become attached to those we love in both weird and wondrous ways. If you’re curious about how that happens and how to work with the stuff that comes up when you’re attached in relationship, here’s a quick overview of the underlying psychology at play—attachment dynamics…
Read MoreWe don’t just fall in love, we fall for love—for the potential of realizing our ideal love in relationship with each other.
However, loving a person while sharing the responsibilities of day-to-day life is challenging, and often, decidedly unsexy…
Read MoreEveryone who terrifies you is sixty-five percent water.
And everyone you love is made of stardust,
and I know
sometimes...
Read MoreOnce upon a time,
When women were birds,
There was the simple understanding...
When I spend my days in the company of birds and plants and earthworms, I am replenished. My gaze softens…my heart expands. The politics of nature...
Read MoreLeave the familiar for a while.
Let your senses and bodies stretch out
Like a welcomed season
Onto the meadow and shores and hills.
Open up to the Roof.
Make a new watermark on your excitement
And love.
Read MoreThere is some kiss we want with our whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body.
Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell, and the lily, how passionately it needs some wild darling.
At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine.
Breathe into me...
Read MoreIn a world that typically encourages us to advance—subscribing to outdated conventional notions of progress involving some perpetual motion forward, onward, and upward to some where—the idea of a “retreat” can seem somehow regressive and unappealing, even conjuring images of defeat, escape, and failure. These associations, though limiting, are not unfounded. Indeed, the phrase “beat a retreat” arose during times of early warfare in which a drummed communication, a particular beat, customarily signaled troops on the battlefield to disengage from combat.
However, the essence of retreats—temporarily...
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