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nectarina: August 2009
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Sunday, August 30, 2009. Three seasons in one. I'm pleased to report that the fluctuations and vagaries of my spirit and soul have conveniently corresponded to the months on the calendar this summer. Onward, into the dust . . . Sunday, August 23, 2009. Spoils of the weekend. Over my time out there today I felt myself slowly coming into a human pace; my frenetic heartbeat smoothed out. Getting in the car and driving back to Oakland felt like a contraction. The best way that I can describe it is to say tha...
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nectarina: October 2008
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008. This one rose,. Dressed in a pink so pale it verges on gray, juts out. At an alarming angle from the vase. On my dining room table. The remaining flowers stand proudly,. Blooming their hues and fragrances. Like women outside of a nightclub,. Shifting their feet and laughing. Moved towards the thumping, smoky recesses. By the momentum of their hope. I tug the odd-angled one out, slowly,. Careful not to budge the arrangement. I see that its stem has been bent in two places. And f...
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nectarina: December 2009
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Monday, December 28, 2009. Something about the safety of being in the bosom of my family allowed me to fully feel the extent of the sadness that I have been feeling about the state of the world. Of course Copenhagen was a farcical sham; shouldn't we all have expected that, given what we know about politics? What IS that thing? Immediately, the answer came: "To love. Love is the joy, love is the richness, love is the source of everything. Love is all there is. The heart’s expansive flowi...Love is the tru...
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nectarina: service and exile
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Monday, September 21, 2009. A friend writes, on his blog: "the degree to which we serve is the degree to which we are no longer in exile.". I used to wonder what people meant when they say, 'the more you give, the more you have.' Wouldn't giving everything just leave me spent and empty? Safety, inertia, numbness. Exile. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. Black Mesa Water Coalition. Buy Fresh Buy Local. Back to Earth Organic Catering. View my complete profile.
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nectarina: re:indigenous
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Sunday, September 13, 2009. During my second year of law school, I took a course called Law, Markets and Culture, taught by the only tenured female African-American professor on the faculty of the school. It was a ranging examination of the intersections of economy and jurisprudence, and the struggle for human thriving amidst these often-forbidding forces. If we are to survive, we must remember. Another article I read today suggested that it ultimately requires a releasing of all thought, all preconceive...
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nectarina: January 2009
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009. To turn, turn will be our delight. After getting in line at 6:30 in the morning, and being, with my group of 7 dear friends, one of the very last people to make it into the sold-out showing of the inauguration at Oakland's Parkway theatre;. After watching President-Elect Obama emerge from the White House with President Bush, with just a few moments remaining of the latter's devastating possession of the title;. After Aretha simply was the queen;. Is where I really lost it.
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nectarina: November 2008
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Thursday, November 20, 2008. I've spent a lot of time with my head in the clouds. It's a beautiful idea, isn't it? Makes so much sense, doesn't it? That is, until recently. I've experienced kind of a triple-whammy catalyst for new thought in the last several months. A perfect storm, if you will, of awakening. 1) Tearing down the wall. Remember when I told you, a few months ago, that it was time to step back and do some heart-healing? We whirled and hollered in the streets for a long time that night.
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nectarina: birthing feminine leadership
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Saturday, October 24, 2009. I'm in the midst of getting trained as a doula. I've spent the past two days learning about child birth and the role of the doula - the one who mothers the mother, who offers labor support - and tomorrow I'll go back for a final day. It's been beautiful and is happening amidst, or perhaps also provoking, a couple of important realizations. Yeah But what else do I have to do? After telling us that the Dalai Lama in September said that "the world will be saved by Western women" ...
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nectarina: November 2009
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Monday, November 9, 2009. I haven't done one of these in a while. It's late at night and while there are many things happening in my world right now, most of them are personal and subterranean and might bore you. So in lieu of musings, I give you Gentleheart's Week in Review. Second, equally of course, is the passage of the health care bill in the House. Can I say this? I don't understand the healthcare debate. Why is universal health care even a question? Finally, the fork in the road in Pasadena. The c...
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