How Much Does Freedom Cost?

We Were Made for These Times by Clarissa Pinkola Estes My friends, do not lose heart. We were made for these times. I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered. They are concerned about the state of affairs in our world right now. Ours is a time of almost daily…

the not-so-secret swing Originally uploaded by torontofotobug. There are times in life when I feel like I’m suspended by a chain, not sure where to go or what to do. I have so long been driven by the need to please others, so long pulled in the vortex of the needs of others… and now…….

my heart, like a sea anemone closes up when it is touched (even softly) it soon reopens ready to be touched again and so it goes

A breakfast picnic with the girls. 

“Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes… we must, strictly speaking, at every moment give each other up and let each other go and not hold each other back.” -Rainer Maria Rilke

I like to walk the edge. I like to F E E L alive and edge-walking makes life all that much more delicious. Except… I am tired of flirting with risk in the relationship department. That which feels risky and uncertain is just that. Not fulfilling, not energizing, not life-affirming… Just broken. (who wants to…