by Katy | Jul 27, 2017 | food, poetry, seasons & cycles
something different: a little, rhyming summer poem for you! 🙂 Even though we rarely eat sweets, Dave’s 60th needed a treat. Something summery, simple, and celebratory to follow salmon, salad, memories, and stories. The family in the...
by Katy | Apr 26, 2017 | awakening, body, collage, mindfulness, poetry, practices, The Feminine
May a woman’s heart be a vast open field upon which wild horses can run. ~ Tibetan Buddhist saying My New Year’s theme for 2017 is Free Heart. While i knew clearly that this was my path for 2017, i needed time to understand more and to live...
by Katy | Oct 19, 2016 | creativity, poetry, practices
One way to nourish yourself in your life, whether you are carrying something difficult with you or just wanting to connect more deeply with yourself, is this practice I learned from Sara Avant Stover on SHE Retreat last year, which we also enjoyed a few weeks ago on...
by Katy | Dec 30, 2015 | awakening, body, mindfulness, poetry, seasons & cycles
The Coming of Light by Mark Strand Even this late it happens: the coming of love, the coming of light. You wake and the candles are lit as if by themselves, stars gather, dreams pour into your pillows, sending up warm bouquets of air. Even this late the bones of the...
by Katy | Nov 5, 2015 | awakening, body, mindfulness, poetry, seasons & cycles
Some of you I will hollow out. I will make you a cave. I will carve you so deep the stars will shine in your darkness. You will be a bowl. You will be the cup in the rock collecting rain. Read more. Hollowing out. Becoming a cave. Being carved deeply. Into a bowl....
by Katy | Feb 26, 2015 | awakening, mindfulness, poetry, practices, relationship
This is Part II of a 2-Part Series on Love for the month of February. Part I explores how essential it is to say Yes to Love in relationship. This second post focuses on practicing Love. Although originally written for dear friends whose wedding I officiated, and,...
