perhaps a monster no longer
From the other side of the world, from the other side of thirty-nine years, I salute my then-new mother on the other side of her hard labor.
From the other side of the screen, you--dear reader--come to this blog to see what's new. Sometimes there's a new post every time you check; other times, all is static for a month at a time. Perhaps that unchanged front-page post each time is no less fresh/novel/new than the parade of new posts.
From the other other side, I am still here, I am working hard, I am in material precarity but trusting in divine guidance.
So, what else is new?
Written by Ela Harrison
on Sunday, 28 February 2016.
Posted in Blogging, WholeHealth, Mindfulness
catching hold, holding on
It seems appropriate that this spell's word should be
apprentice
since we're talking about undertaking an herbal apprenticeship, and about apprenticing to the plants. There's a nice parallelism, word-wise, event-wise, life-wise, with my recent initiation into the Sufi order--both are part of my "spell" nexus, and both involve setting aside my own judgments, preconceptions, and stories, and opening my ears and heart to guidance.
The "surrender" piece is so important, but let's take a look at the etymology of "apprentice" and see how there's another side to the story.
Written by Ela Harrison
on Saturday, 14 March 2015.
Posted in All About Words, Mindfulness