In the beginning . . . words from the Ground Up

First Chakra

The following quotes are from an ever-growing collection you may also find under Projects: Chakra Quotes. After doing so much research, when I read, my brain automatically says, “Oh, this is connected to such-and-such a chakra,” and, so, I started collecting and categorizing them.

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Music Monday – Earth

Spooky, Beautiful, Earthy Norupo Krigsgaldr I’ve seen the live video of this one, but this animation is fascinating. Traust Shaman LIFA I may have posted LIFA before. This band is scary and weird and good. It must be hypnotic to actually perform this music. It would be fascinating to see them live. What a trip!

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Calcified

What is this house in which you find yourself?

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incarnation manifestation – root wisdom

evening at forbidden meadow - holly troy 2016

Love yourself. Love your body. Love Mama Earth. Love one another. Love. Remain in your body, meet the world in Love.

What do you want to make real? You have the right to be here – what do you want to do with your physical time on the planet?

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Having a Place

I came across this essay while pulling a manuscript together. It was written in the spring of 2009. I’ve left Flagstaff and come back twice since then. I love this place – and since I ride my bicycle almost everywhere I go, my relationship to Flagstaff has changed from when I drove everywhere. I’ve slowed […]

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Villanelle – Pressing Against Chaos

Wish I Were the Earth Wish I were the earth could open my mouth and swallow the blur. Turn a wail to a purr in my warm dark house if I were the earth. A natural re-birth on deep stable ground if I could swallow the blur. Wouldn’t leave me to murmur my pain in […]

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Free-Write Intro to My Writing the Energetic Body: Pisces 2014 Class

The family dog, Stoney, loves it, too. I’ve been walking him a lot lately – he’s been helping me heal my nerves and my heart. He reminds me to slow down and look at the light of the setting sun on the prairie grasses. He knows exactly where to stop and find something to smell so I can look at my surroundings more closely. Resin is pouring out of the bark of some pine trees along our walk. Trees are starting to wake up!

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Born on a Thursday #47 – awake, alive

As I was cycling home, I realized that there are a lot of people who were pivotal in (saving) my life during that time (the 90s) in New York – and so many of those people who were important to my development as a writer and artist and loving human being, I will never see again. There I was, pedaling slowly up the mesa, into the sunset, with cars flying past me and tears streaming down my face.

I felt awake, and more alive than I have felt in a long while.

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