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Tag: grief
When all that’s here is change
I am completely aware that the only constant in life is change, but this time, it’s staring me in the face. The lake is different. The sky is different. The owl hooting was even from a different place in the woods.
Read MoreGetting on with Getting on
This is a reminder to myself – I posted this last week regarding bereavement: Yesterday was strange and uncomfortable, but in the end, I made sure to paint and top it off with song and community. Music is the balm for all of life’s troubles.
Read MoreAFP Breaks My Heart ~ American Sentence (lost) Day 85 of 108
Amanda Fucking Palmer blows my mind and my heart. She is relentless in her raw vulnerability, an inspiration, an ardent champion for humanity in all its passion and messiness and ugliness and real-ness.
There is no intermission. Only life.
Photo of Amanda Palmer in Ireland by Stephanie Zakas
Read MoreReclaim Experience, Reclaim the Ordinary
Feeling pretty darn lucky! Get outside and enjoy your life.
Read MoreRising from Ash ~ Day 41 of 108
Grace ~ American Sentence Day 37 of 108
Sweet Habit: American Sentence – Day 36 of 108
The Invitation to Feel More
From the grief of this year rose gratitude. A deep gratitude for my life, for human connection (however brief), for the bond with light and plants and trees and air, with animals, for the hard work and devotion it takes to get out there into the woods, to push myself up rocks and dirt, to […]
Read MoreA little help from my friends and Ram Dass
The end doesn’t make the experience any less valuable.
Read MoreBorn on a Thursday #53 ~ love sickness, love joy
I do not, cannot stop myself. Grief. My body trembles for weeks. My hands shake and I cannot eat without effort. Who am I? I have to keep walking, that was all I know.
Read MoreBorn on a Thursday #51 – Grief. Loss. Winter.
I also want to get a good camera and get into the woods and take photos. I need to buy some equipment (both photography and camping gear and probably, eventually, gulp, a vehicle).
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holly troy ~ sacred folly 