In Grief, Try Personal Rituals

Interesting article on The Atlantic

Healing by D.H. Lawrence

Healing

I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections.

And it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill.

I am ill because of wounds to the soul,

to the deep emotional self

and the wounds to the soul

take a long,

long time,

only time can help and patience,

and a certain difficult repentance,

long difficult repentance,

realizations of life’s mistake,

and the freeing oneself

from the endless repetition of the mistake which mankind at large has chose to sanctify.

by D.H. Lawrence

The Golden Buddha

To the uncovering of the gold

Wayfarers Chapel

Potent space by the sea  

Collective Individuality

“Individuality is also collectivity”

— Arthur Colman, Uping from Scapegoat

The Secret to Desire in a Long-Term Relationship

What is the Secret to Desire in a Long-Term Relationship…

Curating your own imagination.

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees

for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body

      love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.

Meanwhile the world goes on.

Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain

are moving across the landscapes,

over the prairies and the deep trees,

the mountains and the rivers.

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,

are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,

the world offers itself to your imagination,

calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting-

over and over announcing your place

in the family of things.

- Mary Oliver

I Got Life by Nina Simone

I ain't got no home, ain't got no shoes
Ain't got no money, ain't got no class
Ain't got no skirts, ain't got no sweater
Ain't got no perfume, ain't got no bed
Ain't got no man

Ain't got no mother, ain't got no culture
Ain't got no friends, ain't got no schoolin'
Ain't got no love, ain't got no name
Ain't got no ticket, ain't got no token
Ain't got no god

Hey, what have I got?
Why am I alive , anyway?
Yeah, what have I got
Nobody can take away?

Got my hair, got my head
Got my brains, got my ears
Got my eyes, got my nose
Got my mouth, I got my smile
I got my tongue, got my chin
Got my neck, got my boobies
Got my heart, got my soul
Got my back, I got my sex

I got my arms, got my hands
Got my fingers, got my legs
Got my feet, got my toes
Got my liver, got my blood

I've got life, I've got my freedom
I've got life
I've got the life
And I'm going to keep it
I've got the life

Songwriters: Galt Mac Dermot / Gerome Ragni / James Rado

Ain't Got No - I Got Life lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC