I guess I should post on the bad days as well as the good days. I feel displaced today. Hell. Today I feel a lot of dis- words.
dis- prefix 1. expressing negation.2. denoting reversal or absence of an action or state.3. denoting separation.4. denoting removal of the thing specified. 5. expressing completeness [...]

My younger daughter, A, wrote the following essay for her application to summer camp:
A Mentor
by A.
A mentor is someone that teaches you how to do things, or someone that you admire in a significant way who is special to you. The person I admire the most is my mother. I admire her because she [...]

The following are quotes from Dancing in the Flames: The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness by Marion Woodman:
For most people, it takes a lifetime for the psyche to find its relationship to the Goddess. She appears in the psyche in her three-fold nature, sometimes Virgin, sometimes Mother, sometimes Crone. However, it [...]

MandoMama commented on my post about the bigger picture,
“The idea of working through all these things while practicing nonattachment seems a challenge. As you are mindful of all the things you are discovering, I guess you can acknowledge them and “release” them, but shadow remains attached. Can one have a healthy nonattachment to shadow? Hmmm. [...]

From The Middle Path by James Hollis,
As Jung said, neurosis is suffering which has not discovered its meaning. Keeping our appointment with midlife involves both the suffering and the search for its meaning. Then growth is possible.
When I woke up yesterday morning I felt like I was losing my mind. I [...]

James Hollis, The Middle Path:
The shadow should not be equated with evil, only with life that has been suppressed. As such, the shadow is rich in potential. Becoming conscious of it makes us more fully human, more interesting. A shadowless person is extraordinarily bland and uninteresting. A willingness to allow [...]

The other night when I wrote about my grandma, I was going through the photos on my computer and deleting some of the ones that I didn’t want anymore (yes, I have them backed up on a DVD). Granted, I’d had some Tycho (my special gin concoction), as I had been toasting my new [...]

My Grandma.
58 years of marriage.
Nursing him through surgery after surgery, amputation after amputation.
Her heart so determined that it made its own bypass.
A love so fierce that she stopped dying to tell her daughter, “I love you too.”
More than three years after her death and still no headstone on her grave.

From “The Middle Passage” by James Hollis:
Since much of the first half of life involves the construction and maintenance of the persona, we often neglect our inner reality. Enter the shadow, which represents everything that has been repressed or gone unrecognized. The shadow contains all that is vital yet problematic – anger and sexuality, to [...]

Friends and longtime readers have said they are glad I am back to writing again. I guess you could say that I am glad too. This time feels different, though. I’ve been reading some heavy stuff lately and processing it all is taking longer than usual. Then to try and write [...]

In honor of my shadow time of the year (the holidays), I started reading “The Little Book on the Human Shadow” by Robert Bly.
There is *so* much information packed into 81 pages. I gave myself permission to take my time and read it gradually so I could process it.
After I posted yesterday’s entry, I [...]

As part of my desire to translate my new-found fearlessness into the rest of my life, I have made one important decision.
I will not allow myself to be held hostage by someone else’s anger.
I can think of many situations through the years where I chose not to say something or didn’t stick up [...]

With a fresh start, perhaps it is time for me to start blogging with words again. It’s a little trickier, as I have been blogging for more than four years now, and those of you who know me probably also know about my blog.
That said, I will charge ahead with a challenge issued to [...]