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Dancing With La Loba

"The sole work of La Loba is the collecting of bones. She is known to collect and preserve especially that which is in danger of being lost to the world. Her cave is filled with the bones of all manner of desert creatures: the deer, the rattlesnake, the crow. But her speciality is said to be wolves. She creeps and crawls and sifts through the monatanas, mountains, and arroyos, dry river beds, looking for wolf bones, and when she has assembled an entire skeleton, when the last bone is in ... read more

Red Shoes Barefoot

"The craft of questions, the craft of stories, the craft of the hands—all these are the making of something, and that something is soul. Anytime we feed soul, it guarantees increase." ~ Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes Having been forced to dance to the tune of someone else's drumbeat (actually someones else's drumbeats in two different locations), I am now in a time of reclaiming myself, my time, my freedom to sleep all night, to concentrate, to meditate, to feel safe and comfortable ... read more

Baby Steps Are Little Leaps

I do not feel depressed today. This is the second time I have been able to write that this week and mean it. I understand that this may only be temporary reprieve since my External Stressor has been absent. I understand that all of the little changes I have been making may not entirely add up to beating depression by themselves if the External Stressor is missing from the experiment. But what it does show is that once I can eliminate the External Stressor completely I have no excuses. The ... read more

Rooting Around

I have not been writing much here for a couple of reasons and today I just want to say *whatever* to both those reasons and reclaim my space.I made this SoulCollage card some time ago and I notice that it is the only card I have in my Chakra/Companions Suit. This tells its own story about how disconnected I feel from my body, my energy, my creativity, the earth, how I want my life to be and on infinitum.I was doing some reading about Muladhara, the Root Chakra, today and one thing jumped out at ... read more

Blogaversary

I realised this week that I have been blogging for two years - today is my blogaversary. I remember when I first set up my blog I had this sense of writing into a void, of not having a clue what to say. I wasn't even sure what the point of blogging was and whether it was something I really wanted to do. Two years on I have come to accept the ebb and flow of my blog productivity/inconsistency and I try not to feel obligated to produce something - sometimes I just have nothing to post, sometimes ... read more

When you feel down, go up

I awoke this morning feeling depressed and harbouring a sense of dread that today will resemble yesterday. The only positive thing about my waking was that I awoke by myself without any outside influences. I lay there dreading the idea of trying to write, or think, or paint, or do anything creative and being repeatedly disturbed by unpredictable, unwelcome interruptions.It is not good or healthy to wake up feeling like that, it doesn't exactly move the day forward, so just for today I put my ... read more

Knitting Therapy

Rainbow FeetSocks by Taexalia for Taexalia:)I'm half amused to be writing this post at all.The idea of knitting being a liminal space, or a way to open gates to the psyche, or a path to Zen (choose your favourite or run screaming for the Old Age now...) was not something I considered when I decided I wanted to be able to knit socks. But I'm finding that it works for me.I suppose, when I think about it, knitting is just like any other creative pursuit - the act of doing is where the magic ... read more

Art Exhibit

In June @ and I travelled to Odense in Denmark to see the exhibition mounted by TSLO. We both had work showing and it was just a wee bit exciting. @ took part last year and we had both travelled over, and I pledged to take part this year. In the end I was quite close to the deadline for submitting work when I decided to try and make an oil painting. I hadn't painted for YEARS and didn't quite know what was going to happen, but I had this vision of bringing Crow to a canvas and so I gave it a ... read more

Wee Blossoms

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Forget Me Not"][/caption] I am absolutely determined to get to 28th July and have a blog post for every day. I know there is a theory about quality over quantity but this is my challenge to myself to actually write something here every day. I am trying to build the habit of daily writing and learn a bit of self discipline where creativity is concerned. That sounds a bit odd ~ "self discipline where creativity is concerned" but I ... read more