a gladiator’s world…

by katrina on May 2, 2012

Last night I watched Jenny Phillips on TED. She talks about a prison in Alabama where the inmates practise meditation. What struck me was how she described the facility – “a gladiator world where you have to watch your back, be strong, hide your emotions, and be ready to fight.” It struck me because, while this might be a place where the ‘gladiator-mentality’ is magnified and evident, I realize it’s one that permeates and separates us all. Until it doesn’t. Until the walls crumble and the armor and shields are transformed into the ecstasy of re-connection.

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windows into my world, thanks to Katybeth Jensen & Madelyn George….

by katrina on April 27, 2012

PURSE-SON-ANALITY

THE SPACE OF CREATION…

 

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knowing the knowing of not knowing

April 26, 2012

I’ve been here before. In this place. Where things are seemingly without root or anchor. Where the unknown is Great. And once again, I remind myself that, what I think should be, or needs to be, is, more than likely, far less than what the Universe has in mind. Though, that said, what I have [...]

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on the edge of love…

February 3, 2012

Less than a month ago, I woke up one morning and was struck by the notion I was moving. Struck because, until that moment in time, I had no conscious realization that it was even on the radar. And even though it made no logical sense – I mean, I’ve spent the last two and [...]

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coming home…

January 17, 2012

Hatred, gossip, violence, judgment, despair, when I look into them, feel into them, experience them, they all stem from the one thing – fear. Fear of not having enough, fear of not being enough, fear that makes us want to be better than someone else because then maybe someone will notice, fear that makes us [...]

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musings on autism…

January 15, 2012

I don’t know a whole lot about autism. I mean, I’ve read Oliver Sacs and seen the movie with Dustin Hoffman, and that’s about it. This morning I overheard something Rachel was listening to, about an autistic child who has learned how to type, and through typing, reveals a side to herself that is profound [...]

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cancer: the possibility of expectation…

December 31, 2011

In the shower this morning I felt a lump in my breast. God. It’s so intimate, this writing of the word breast.  This unbelievably tender place that is so much of the beingness of being a woman. Yes. In the shower. Definitely a lump. And in the ten or so minutes between finding it and [...]

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Stella Sky is in the building…

December 22, 2011

What if you came to realize that all the stories you have ever known or been told, the ones that you have believed for as long as you can remember, were the very things that kept you and your imagination tethered and bound? What if now was the time to let go of everything you [...]

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if you can’t be with the one you love ~

November 7, 2011

Last night I dreamt about Adea. As I re-integrate into being home after dropping in on her and her new life out there in Massachusetts, I am aware of a part of me that still lingers. The part that misses her and wishes to be there, knowing her interests, her hopes, her disappointments, her friends, [...]

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just a little bitty piece from my novel ‘Stella Sky’

October 11, 2011

Fire. That which destroys just as easily as it creates, which cleanses just as easily as it kills. Tasted on the burning lips of lovers and ignited in the souls of the mad and the brilliant, it is the rain that brings the end of worlds and drips from the tongues of those compelled to [...]

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