tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32557381438387102812024-03-05T09:22:03.451-05:00sacredly_mundanest. teresa lent me her halohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17009617573415097054noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255738143838710281.post-73234487601361392062009-05-08T14:02:00.003-04:002009-05-08T14:15:42.031-04:00misogyny as altruistic endeavorRecently, I had a conversation with some guys about childbearing and I brought up the fact that it's inherently selfish to have a child. They freaked out. One expressed how having a child is altruistic in nature and I had the unexpected pleasure of sharing with him how nothing altruistic is 100% altruistic and having children? What's so altruistic about that?That led us to the point of "well, st. teresa lent me her halohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17009617573415097054noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255738143838710281.post-43937999322581342602009-04-28T22:40:00.003-04:002009-04-28T22:46:53.375-04:00communityEe gads. I really need to learn to let some things go.Years ago, after the birth of my fourth child, I volunteered to coordinate a forum for the UU church I was attending. It turned out that dealing with the people who had coordinated it in the past (and who didn't want to coordinate it that year) annoyed the hell out of me, so I baled. They ended up not having the forum that year. I felt st. teresa lent me her halohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17009617573415097054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255738143838710281.post-30646283244141478762009-04-26T21:48:00.001-04:002009-04-26T21:49:43.222-04:00the anti-chri...er, feministApparently, True Women belong in the kitchen. Or where ever the man tells 'em to wait. That's all I'm going to say because now I want to smack somebody. st. teresa lent me her halohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17009617573415097054noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255738143838710281.post-960146566818432392009-04-25T19:21:00.000-04:002009-04-25T19:22:58.851-04:00i feelbasementbottombottomfeederyoulaughsighcryyouhatredangerdisillusionmentyouyouevictedget outforeverst. teresa lent me her halohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17009617573415097054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255738143838710281.post-79378487217250440062009-04-24T10:12:00.003-04:002009-04-24T11:22:29.504-04:00New Moon in TaurusTaurus. That beautiful horn-of-plenty. This New Moon is the perfect time to wish for things related to money, satisfaction, and sex. (Was that redundant?) Also, if you want to work on patience, this is a surprisingly good time to do it. The Rule of Opposites and all that, seeing that Taureans are notoriously impatient and stubborn, if you ask me. (I know patience is a supposed Taurus Virtue,st. teresa lent me her halohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17009617573415097054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255738143838710281.post-59395874375450331522009-04-23T15:50:00.004-04:002009-04-23T16:09:31.395-04:00lifepathI just finished watching a documentary called 5 Girls. The doc follows five teen girls who are experiencing life and dealing with finding their place in this world (specifically the USA, Chicago-area) as females. It was interesting, but dredged up a pain.When I was in high school, it was expected that I'd go to college afterward. I wasn't a first-generation college student and not attending st. teresa lent me her halohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17009617573415097054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255738143838710281.post-28448710325282154342009-04-21T14:50:00.003-04:002009-04-21T18:19:12.066-04:00education or schooling? yes, you have to make a choice.While watching an old 20/20 report on the incompetence of public schooling in the USA, I encountered an anti-homeschooling comment. The comment, as is typical for anti-homeschooling sentiment, dwelled on the lack of social skills homeschooled kids have. Here is the problem with that idea: if you meet enough people in life, you will meet lots of people who lack social finesse. The public st. teresa lent me her halohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17009617573415097054noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255738143838710281.post-40118413747792690132009-04-15T19:48:00.000-04:002009-04-15T19:49:11.030-04:00can you hate what you understand?st. teresa lent me her halohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17009617573415097054noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255738143838710281.post-86994885428392245262009-04-13T23:02:00.002-04:002009-04-13T23:10:12.202-04:00Pride MonthApril is Pride Month for the LGBTQ community and my town has events set up almost every day. Tonight, I attended a bisexuality forum, but I guess I'm more educated on the issue than I realized because I didn't learn anything new. Wait. I take that back. I learned about the Klein Sexuality Grid. I was all excited about it, too. I came home and googled it, thinking I'd have an online quiz to st. teresa lent me her halohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17009617573415097054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255738143838710281.post-14936079502596262202009-04-09T16:32:00.004-04:002009-04-21T18:21:58.767-04:00PETA, the PITAI recently watched I Am An Animal: the story of Ingrid Newkirk and PETA. Well, I'll be honest. I half-watched it. After a while, I felt I got the picture and the picture was nasty.I watched it because I've never understood PETA. I know they're a controversial group and I've seen video footage of them going too far (in my opinion), but I wanted to really understand their perspective. And, I st. teresa lent me her halohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17009617573415097054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255738143838710281.post-57039942453070764322009-04-08T12:15:00.004-04:002009-04-22T16:50:30.724-04:00amethystI'm working with amethyst, again.Amethyst is in the quartz family and is regarded as a good crystal to work with when overcoming addictions. (I find it cute that there is a company called Amethyst, Inc. that's geared toward helping women overcome addictions, violence, and poverty.) It's also good for helping with psychic abilities.What am I using it for? Clarity of thought.I think. It's what st. teresa lent me her halohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17009617573415097054noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255738143838710281.post-44134038846599833082009-04-06T16:38:00.002-04:002009-04-06T16:47:26.093-04:00what's your story?We all have a story. Or, rather, many stories. We tell ourselves things about what we’re going through, what we think of other people, how we should live our lives, how we would live our lives if only…Lots and lots of stories.Sometimes, I sit and wonder what life would be like if there were no stories. If I just lived in the Now and behaved as if the Past and the Future didn’t exist, how would st. teresa lent me her halohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17009617573415097054noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255738143838710281.post-42808825824809878042009-04-04T10:56:00.003-04:002009-04-04T11:07:50.506-04:00(un)bound"tied up and twistedthe way I'd like to befor you, for me, come crashinto me" -Dave Matthews Band, Crash Into MeFor so long it seemed Lust was easierfor Love...Love comesbut warrants no behaviorno reactionnothing at allLust can be fathomedcan be tamedcan be comprehended the way only stars and moons and suns canbut Lovewhat is Love if not pain?either joyfulor tormentingneither unrequitednor st. teresa lent me her halohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17009617573415097054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255738143838710281.post-33021582317255586212009-04-03T12:25:00.004-04:002009-04-03T12:51:39.718-04:00the wheels keep a-turnin'For the past few months, I've been focusing on my chakras. When I feel stressed or my energy feels overwhelming (you know the feeling--I must do something, but I don't know what), I sit and focus on making sure my chakras are clear.The way I think of chakras is that they're energy centers in your body that operate a lot like wheels connected by chains. Sometimes, they get gunk in them, slowing st. teresa lent me her halohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17009617573415097054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255738143838710281.post-77522734518182190802009-04-02T13:16:00.004-04:002009-04-02T13:34:23.170-04:00treasure? yes, please.So, it's Treasure Map time and I completed mine last Sunday. After doing one for a few years, I finally found my stride and I'm pretty pleased with what resulted.It's not full of beautiful pictures, but the imagery is there all the same. I am a Words Chick. Anyone who knows me knows that. As such, I have had problems with Treasure Mapping in the past because I would see other people's maps st. teresa lent me her halohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17009617573415097054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255738143838710281.post-51614974331431256872009-04-01T08:55:00.003-04:002009-04-01T09:02:30.736-04:00April Fools!Okay, in the spirit of April Fools Day, I am going to diverge from seriousness and introspection and go straight to the tequila. Ready? Here we go...Wanna know the possible origins of the day and how others maybe do it? Ask Wikipedia. It could be wrong, but how would you know, anyway? It's best not to worry about it.Looking for kid-friendly pranks? Go no further. (I especially like the onest. teresa lent me her halohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17009617573415097054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255738143838710281.post-45566855469742575742009-03-30T22:04:00.002-04:002009-03-30T22:24:31.080-04:00breathe in, breathe outI've returned to Breath. And, what a difference it's making.Yoga is amazing. I do it for the breathing exercise, because I always forget how much it does for my body. I don't know why, but I don't think "body" when I think "yoga". Holding those poses while concentrating on breath...whew! My shoulders start to hurt just thinking about it. But, it's good pain. Very good pain.March has been ast. teresa lent me her halohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17009617573415097054noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255738143838710281.post-33260169660722547172009-03-26T06:58:00.003-04:002009-03-26T07:47:59.965-04:00modesty revisitedI grew up covering my hair. As a Muslim teen, my mother forced me to wear hijab and so I did. I hated it until my senior year in high school, when my mother gave me the choice to stop wearing it. I didn't stop. I figured it would be more trouble than it was worth at that point, so I made some sort of peace with covering my hair that year. My mother had forced me to do it as a way of st. teresa lent me her halohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17009617573415097054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255738143838710281.post-12437723362462745002009-01-28T23:47:00.004-05:002009-01-29T00:07:19.603-05:00streaming thoughtI have a fascinating dream life. I'd go so far as to say my dream life is more interesting than my real life. Recently, I had a dream with shadowy figures in it. I call them mud entities, because I don't know how else to describe them. I keep thinking about the dream and what the entities represented: me, others, spirit guides, what? I'm not sure and it's driving me a little mad, because I st. teresa lent me her halohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17009617573415097054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255738143838710281.post-67823960403634516242009-01-20T08:46:00.002-05:002009-01-20T08:49:11.896-05:00reflections of a life currentthe surprise was not that you weregonethe surprise lay in that factthe fact that the mirrorremainedst. teresa lent me her halohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17009617573415097054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255738143838710281.post-2328749536249892572009-01-15T14:56:00.004-05:002009-04-03T19:31:34.509-04:00true or false?Truth.Is there such a thing as truth? There are facts, but truth is often subjective. We often pit truth against falsity and fact against fiction, as if they mean the same thing, but they do not. Not inherently.All truths are not facts. I can say so-and-so is a nice person. That may be true, but it is not necessarily a fact. It can't be proven. I can give many instances to use as proof, butst. teresa lent me her halohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17009617573415097054noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255738143838710281.post-22420791280307996422008-12-28T12:29:00.003-05:002008-12-28T12:54:17.623-05:00balanceI haven't been around for a couple of months because I haven't been sure what to talk about. My life has felt quite empty for the past few months. Spiritually, I've been more in the Earth element than the Air element (and I generally live in the Air). As a result, I've been doing things, trying things, touching parts of myself that I didn't know I had. As a result, I've been knowingly helping st. teresa lent me her halohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17009617573415097054noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255738143838710281.post-71336010081728576822008-10-21T10:28:00.003-04:002008-10-21T10:41:13.674-04:00this is where the healing beginsI believe that thoughts create our realities, and, yet, I've acted victimized by my thoughts of late.I wonder why that is so.If I get to choose the thoughts I hold on to, why hold on to ones that don't serve me well? Reading chapter four in Louise Hay's book, You Can Heal Your Life, I am confronted with my pattern of self-harm. She compares choosing thoughts to being in a buffet line and then st. teresa lent me her halohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17009617573415097054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255738143838710281.post-24604296147019147752008-09-17T09:01:00.003-04:002008-09-17T09:15:04.221-04:00soul ramblingsTonight, the moon will enter Taurus around 9pm Eastern. I think that's a good time to do some money work.Once again, I remembered that I want to learn more about Sacred Geometry. I visited my friend's store, yesterday, and she has a sacred geometry book and card set for sale. She says the book is fantastic and since I need to work on adding Earth to my Air, I'm going to buy the set so I can st. teresa lent me her halohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17009617573415097054noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255738143838710281.post-72902990399628547442008-08-25T22:54:00.002-04:002008-08-25T23:02:49.872-04:00reach out and touch one's selfSpirituality is an active noun. That's what I'm remembering. I can not be passive and still reap the benefits of spirituality. I must actively endeavor toward spiritual things. I must persist. That is not always something I feel like doing. The appeal of going to church once or twice a week and reading someone else's ideas about God and life is great at times. I suppose, in those moments, st. teresa lent me her halohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17009617573415097054noreply@blogger.com0