Imagine Mary, a glib girl full of wistfulness, stumbling along a red dust road in the heat of summer, basket loaded with impossible tasks, thoughts miles away from her feet. Joe says she is fine, his foxy lady, his melancholy baby. Mary wants more than life as a wife, sweeping up sawdust, tweezing splinters from scabby fingers. She wants to be wooed, to be lifted aloft with the power of […]
Pamela Burditt | Mother
I SEEK TO BE LOVING and nurturing, understanding, compassionate, insightful, intuitive, creative, and wise. I seek divine femininity. I want that spark to ignite a deeper spiritual reality in me, one of creativity, love and wisdom. One I can share. When my children experience the messiness of life, I want them to know I won’t leave. That I’m there to help heal and enlighten, renew and restore. I seek to […]
Shelley Kahn | An examination of conscience – post holiday spirit blues
Do not tell me to shine my light into a dark room. I prefer the absence of such interventions To pedantic purpose and tithed out virtue. Do not ask me to confess anything to you either. I long ago opened the hollowed out cage Emptied its still beating contents in a sieve And went on my way to the soup kitchen To eat hearty with my true friends, […]
January movies you might’ve missed | Spiritual politics
There are political films and spiritual films, but relatively few that explore the intersection between the two. Two classics come to mind—Gandhi and Seven Years in Tibet—which no doubt many readers have seen. However, three of the most powerful films that explicitly engage the intersection of spirituality and politics are the trilogy of documentaries by Canadian filmmaker Velcrow Ripper: Scared Sacred, Fierce Light, and Occupy Love. Scared Sacred is a […]
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