Rituals
How do I Love Me?
My granddaughter visited me yesterday, and we made a bunch of heart-shaped sugar cookies. And of course, I judged hers were much better than mine. It got late, and we…
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Bathing, Rituals
Meditation as Practice
The bath is one of my favorite places to meditate as well as a comfy chair. If I could, I would have this dream of a tub to settle into…
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Baths vs. Showers
We all grew up from childhood taking nightly baths after a hard day at play. Our parents told us to get into the tub and wash all the dirt off…
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If your Bath could talk
If your bath tub could talk, what would it say to the water? What would the water say to your body? Would the water say perhaps, I invite you in?…
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The Energy of Stillness
This title seems to sound like an oxymoron to write about the “energy of stillness”. But, please stay with me here. Stillness usually means the absence of energy and any…
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Do You have Little Altars Everywhere?
Little Altars Everywhere is a book by Rebecca Wells who also wrote The Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood. Both of these books are ones that I have read…
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What is a Solstice?
We have all been noticing that the days have gradually been getting longer and longer as we get further into this year. The longest day of the year is yet…
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A Hot Bath and Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath once wrote “There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won’t cure but I don’t know many of them.” Okay now, what things do you…
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Shutting the Door and a Bath
I know particularly at these seeming chaotic times we need a place where we can find sanctuary and settle into yourselves. We need to let the outside world go with…
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What is your joyful breath?
Recently I went Taos, New Mexico for Creativity Weekend. I wanted to work on my writing to be more comfortable with it and not battle it so much. I feel…
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