This post is so beautiful and oh my gosh so is your tattoo! I’ve been reading your writing when up with my baby in the night for awhile without commenting but just had to comment here!
I so resonate with feeling the regret and shame about ways I’ve made sense of the world in the past, as well as with finding comfort in surprising encounters with Spirit. I love this feeling that beyond/before/amid conversions, deconstruction, etc there is just one wide river holding and healing all. Also the Rumi line “What you seek is seeking you” bubbles up for me here.
Hey Sarah! Awww, wow, it's so sweet to know you've been reading during those late-night hours. What a strange and difficult and precious season that is.
Thank you for this beautiful description of this sensation that "there is just one wide river holding and healing all." Yes. It's everything to have moments where all the noise quiets and we can know the truth of that in our being. I love the Rumi quote too! Perfectly resonant.
Well, this post reminded me of a guy I briefly dated who was from Sabinal. My family went up to the Frío every summer from Corpus and I met him on the Garner dance floor when I was 15, 16? No metaphors, just the dusty memories of what the word “Sabinal” makes me recall. Your tattoo is incredible.
And what a wondrous experience there in the desert - to have Love show you she was there all along. What a tender, precious reclamation. And what a gift to get to read it!
Her tone reminded me of Liz Gilbert’s Letters from Love. Have you tried that exercise? I want to, but haven’t yet.
Do you use a name for the holy, the force of love that animates/loves all beings?
Thank you, Rose! And thank you for reading. It really was wondrous, and I love having the memory on my body.
That's an interesting connection to Gilbert's Letters--I've thought that too, in terms of this being spoken to by this creative force. I've been wanting to try that too and don't really know why I haven't. It was different, I suppose because she spoke to me unexpected, but it certainly begs the question, why not ask her to speak more?
I do use many names--Great Spirit, Wild Mother most often. What name/s do you use?
This post is so beautiful and oh my gosh so is your tattoo! I’ve been reading your writing when up with my baby in the night for awhile without commenting but just had to comment here!
I so resonate with feeling the regret and shame about ways I’ve made sense of the world in the past, as well as with finding comfort in surprising encounters with Spirit. I love this feeling that beyond/before/amid conversions, deconstruction, etc there is just one wide river holding and healing all. Also the Rumi line “What you seek is seeking you” bubbles up for me here.
Hey Sarah! Awww, wow, it's so sweet to know you've been reading during those late-night hours. What a strange and difficult and precious season that is.
Thank you for this beautiful description of this sensation that "there is just one wide river holding and healing all." Yes. It's everything to have moments where all the noise quiets and we can know the truth of that in our being. I love the Rumi quote too! Perfectly resonant.
Well, this post reminded me of a guy I briefly dated who was from Sabinal. My family went up to the Frío every summer from Corpus and I met him on the Garner dance floor when I was 15, 16? No metaphors, just the dusty memories of what the word “Sabinal” makes me recall. Your tattoo is incredible.
Wow, I love this connection, Joy. I’ve always wanted to dance on the Garner dance floor. Must be a metaphor in there somewhere…
Wow, it’s beautiful, Beth! You’re beautiful!
And what a wondrous experience there in the desert - to have Love show you she was there all along. What a tender, precious reclamation. And what a gift to get to read it!
Her tone reminded me of Liz Gilbert’s Letters from Love. Have you tried that exercise? I want to, but haven’t yet.
Do you use a name for the holy, the force of love that animates/loves all beings?
Thank you, Rose! And thank you for reading. It really was wondrous, and I love having the memory on my body.
That's an interesting connection to Gilbert's Letters--I've thought that too, in terms of this being spoken to by this creative force. I've been wanting to try that too and don't really know why I haven't. It was different, I suppose because she spoke to me unexpected, but it certainly begs the question, why not ask her to speak more?
I do use many names--Great Spirit, Wild Mother most often. What name/s do you use?