At this time of year, when many spiritual and cultural traditions turn to focus on honoring their ancestors and departed loved ones, I find myself mourning a cultural loss of my own and seeking opportunities to actively replace what has been mostly lost these days. I was typing up a long overdue neighborhood contact list, […]
In a quiet moment of realization this evening, I glimpsed the amazing bittersweet wholeness of my life in this day. This mostly ordinary day.
Last weekend was the mad dash to haul everything out of our apartment and across town to our new home. I now sit surrounded by mountains of boxes and baskets and bins filled with the […]
Everybody knows the Buddha said Life is suffering. These days he is practically a pop culture icon. But as I was listening to a Zencast podcast titled “What Is Buddhism?” yesterday evening, awareness entered my being. I already perfectly understand what it is like to be fully awakened. My thoughts were blown over by this clear and simple, yet […]
As I begin tonight’s post, I have no title in mind as of yet. Basically this is because I don’t really know where this particular post is going. All I know is that I really, really wanted to blog tonight. The past three nights, I’ve had a significant problem getting to sleep. I’ve been seriously […]
New Year’s Day. The first day of this year inspires the same personal ritual as it has for the past seven. I rummage around on my bookshelf and dig out a salmon pink, rectangular treasure, Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, by Sarah Ban Breathnach. I adore this book and the promises of […]
Part 1 available here
In a matter of hours the Master and Mistress will officially be 18 months old and my heart whispers forcefully that I can wait no longer. The past reaches out and tugs frantically at me, not to harm me any further, but to grab tightly to my attention and force me to focus on what […]
It has been almost 19 weeks since their birth and although life improves weekly, there is still a great deal of healing that must take place. The edges of my scar have started aching in the morning after each grueling night of what a fellow twin mother refers to as rotisserie nursing. Staring in the […]
Life is simply a series of rites of passage. There is the time preparing for them, the time spent enduring and completing them and the time processing them before beginning the cycle once again. What I never realized before was that there is something to be learned, not only after the completion of the rite, […]
I believe in the power of the waning moon, she who heralds times of greatest transformation through the dark passages from one state of being to the next. These precious opportunities to begin anew, changed forever from the edges of our souls to the depths of our hearts, yet still filled with the same essence […]
That is my goal for this year– to practice the art of just being. It might not sound like much of a challenge to some people, but for a pregnant, sporadically type-A, somewhat obsessive, occasionally compulsive, self-employed birth professional and Gemini mother of a Libra two year old, this is asking quite a lot. I’ve […]
Crunchy Mama waxes philisophical from her happy Texas home where she resides in matrimonial bliss with Patris Maximus and the Triad of Chaos: the ring leader, Athena, and her devoted twin followers, Apollo and Artemis
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