What Happens When You Jump

Another word for what Prayer means to me may be Love. Also Peace. Also Trust, Openness and Joy. For me, these things are not only emotions or sensations. They are, it is, the prayer. My intention. My purpose, really and ultimately. This is the truth and don’t we all know it?
This is the truth and [...]

June 2008
The feeling I have, had just now was so magnificent, so filled with the extraordinary richness of my simple life. Sitting on the ground, one cushion below me, the other between my back and the low ledge that borders my small garden and bit of grass. The air, so fresh. The sky blue with [...]

Winter 2006
Though I had gotten up at four for the procession of the Virgin of Guadelupe, I had so much going on inside me, and it felt like too much; more than I could handle, too scary, uncomfortable and  painful to look at and work through. I got into bed and journaled for a few [...]

Alchemy is sitting with my feelings, being where I am, accepting not fighting, not trying to abolish, get rid of, fix. Sitting with my feelings until they begin to soften and become transpararent and mist-like. When my feelings are like ghosts I can move through them with ease, as if I were a ghost.  They [...]