Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Earth Home
This is Ely Cathedral on my birthday.
We went to the apple festival
ate toffee apples
drank homemade cider
and found local pumpkins!
The first fires of the winter
and spicy Indian food
what a great and peaceful day!
Friday, October 16, 2009
Birth Power
Tomorrow is my birthday, or the anniversary of the day that I came out and breathed this air as a human on land. Re-working my birth has been a major theme of my writing, my dance works, and my thought process. It only goes deeper. This year I am working with power, the power to initiate and complete creative processes in their own ripe time, the power to move slowly and to wait, the power to be squeezed and changed from one form to the next. But mostly, just a sense of power.
"I imagined that I would stop telling stories
stop acting in my father's films
I would give up my aspirations
I do not need to be an artist, I told myself
I do not need to be a goddess
I will be a woman, a wife, a muse
But this is what I could not give up:
I could not give up myself
And my self had become
the memory of the god who once visited me each night...
I wanted to tell her about my first lover, Love
the one who never hurt me
He killed me but he never
hurt me
Do you understand?....
Love was waiting in the shadows
I had found him again
He stepped into a circle of lamplight
and it did not burn him."
Somehow, love and power are the same creative spark. This is different from the generative waters of creation, this is creation in the fire center, and it resounds with a sense of love.
The text is from Psyche in a Dress by Francesca Lia Block.
En Power,
"I imagined that I would stop telling stories
stop acting in my father's films
I would give up my aspirations
I do not need to be an artist, I told myself
I do not need to be a goddess
I will be a woman, a wife, a muse
But this is what I could not give up:
I could not give up myself
And my self had become
the memory of the god who once visited me each night...
I wanted to tell her about my first lover, Love
the one who never hurt me
He killed me but he never
hurt me
Do you understand?....
Love was waiting in the shadows
I had found him again
He stepped into a circle of lamplight
and it did not burn him."
Somehow, love and power are the same creative spark. This is different from the generative waters of creation, this is creation in the fire center, and it resounds with a sense of love.
The text is from Psyche in a Dress by Francesca Lia Block.
En Power,
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Medicine
I choose this deep red ochre color for Earth, Earth medicine. Finally, the strands of life which sustained me in the childbearing years are integrating into this new phase. These strands are polarity and dance and community. My first clients come next week, my teaching begins again next week, and I am deeply in love with my family. Today, Mathias is home sick and so I share with you his medicine, which I believe is simple and useful enough to be of help in the coming winter.
Ginger Water
Peel and finely chop a good size hunk of ginger. Add it to a small saucepan full of water. Bring the water to a boil and then turn down the heat to simmer for 20 minutes, or until the water is half gone. Strain the ginger out and store the Ginger Water in a sterilized glass jar. Serve warm over the course of the day with a large spoonful of honey in each cup. This should make three to four cups, and as the body accumulates heat stuck pockets of mucus will begin to drain away from the ears and sinuses. If you know manual lymph drainage techniques, use them after the second of third cup.
Elderberry
A simple syrup of distilled elderberry can be found at most health food stores. Buy the simple version, without sucralose, sugar, or gums added. The plain one is yummy on its own and less work for the body to assimilate. Elderberry is antiviral, and gentle enough to use long term. The kids get a heaping spoonful of elderberry every morning during heavy flu seasons. This can be done for months without overdosing.
Licorice
Licorice is also antiviral, but stronger than Elderberry and a stimulant for the heart. It should not be used long term, or with those who have heart conditions. When an antiviral boost is needed, one to three days is enough. You can find unprocessed licorice bark at some health food stores or online from companies like Frontier. Make the same way as indicated for the Ginger Water above, but don't bother peeling the licorice bark! A strainer with the really small holes is helpful. As licorice is really sweet on its own, the honey is optional. Best warm.
And of course, cuddles turn the world back right side up when it is down. Off to cuddle~
Ginger Water
Peel and finely chop a good size hunk of ginger. Add it to a small saucepan full of water. Bring the water to a boil and then turn down the heat to simmer for 20 minutes, or until the water is half gone. Strain the ginger out and store the Ginger Water in a sterilized glass jar. Serve warm over the course of the day with a large spoonful of honey in each cup. This should make three to four cups, and as the body accumulates heat stuck pockets of mucus will begin to drain away from the ears and sinuses. If you know manual lymph drainage techniques, use them after the second of third cup.
Elderberry
A simple syrup of distilled elderberry can be found at most health food stores. Buy the simple version, without sucralose, sugar, or gums added. The plain one is yummy on its own and less work for the body to assimilate. Elderberry is antiviral, and gentle enough to use long term. The kids get a heaping spoonful of elderberry every morning during heavy flu seasons. This can be done for months without overdosing.
Licorice
Licorice is also antiviral, but stronger than Elderberry and a stimulant for the heart. It should not be used long term, or with those who have heart conditions. When an antiviral boost is needed, one to three days is enough. You can find unprocessed licorice bark at some health food stores or online from companies like Frontier. Make the same way as indicated for the Ginger Water above, but don't bother peeling the licorice bark! A strainer with the really small holes is helpful. As licorice is really sweet on its own, the honey is optional. Best warm.
And of course, cuddles turn the world back right side up when it is down. Off to cuddle~
Friday, October 2, 2009
Itchy Tears
Well this past week has ushered in a new energy and I am riding the waves of that, and seeing it all around me. The bins, the sense of change, of metamorphosing, of lenghtening bones and getting stretch marks becasue it comes so fast.
My research is in rapid acceleration as the timeline looms close, only 2 months to completion. I am now in the phase where my natural poetic voice must be put through the threshing floor and reproduced with a cohesion and clarity that I do not yet feel capable of. I am afraid of loosing the flow and the beauty...I am afraid of short choppy sentences. And, I might be afraid of really standing out on my own, of spaciousness, of lots of little paragraphs that can't hide within a flowery prose.
Yesterday I cried great big crocodile tears over it, and that felt good. And now, well I should be editing and I am writing this blog =) One more cup of coffee and then.... It just feels itchy, inside where it is not blood and organs, where it is the subtle channel of light that manifests me, it feels itchy there, and it looks like Animal from the muppets. God help us!
My research is in rapid acceleration as the timeline looms close, only 2 months to completion. I am now in the phase where my natural poetic voice must be put through the threshing floor and reproduced with a cohesion and clarity that I do not yet feel capable of. I am afraid of loosing the flow and the beauty...I am afraid of short choppy sentences. And, I might be afraid of really standing out on my own, of spaciousness, of lots of little paragraphs that can't hide within a flowery prose.
Yesterday I cried great big crocodile tears over it, and that felt good. And now, well I should be editing and I am writing this blog =) One more cup of coffee and then.... It just feels itchy, inside where it is not blood and organs, where it is the subtle channel of light that manifests me, it feels itchy there, and it looks like Animal from the muppets. God help us!
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