Celebrating light, love and darkness

In the Southern Hemisphere, where I live, Christmas (which is today) falls in the same week as the Summer Solstice, also known as Midsummer, the central turning point of the season. The solstices might be understood as rituals of light. They mark the shortening and the lengthening of the days, and with the day, [...]

The Frog King, or The Well of the World’s End

The Frog Prince ~ PJ Lynch

 

The motif of the Frog Prince came up while talking with my psychoanalyst today about one of the characteristic dynamics of my intimate relationships: I’ve been finding wounded men, kissing them and waiting for them to transform and thus redeem my wounds. When I came home and [...]

On watching my tree grow

I bought this tree seventeen years ago.

For years,  I carried her from share-house to share-house.  She weathered life in some very dim inner city room corners, stoically holding on with six very countable leaves.  Yet, over those years I became affectionally attached to this beautiful Benjamina Ficus and made her whispered promises that I [...]

Inherent goodness

A perfectly cast article by Susan Piver about tuning into our own inherent goodness:

 

It means being who you are rather than who you thought you were supposed to be.

This is an act of love, not to mention authenticity, joy, daring, kindness. Vulnerability.

Belief in your own [...]

Feast on Your Life

The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other’s welcome,

and say sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was yourself. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger [...]