Purity, like devotion, may sometimes be regarded as a grand unattainable thing – high minded, even abstract. But the essence of purity, and its practice, is something we can find in our ordinary day, and in our ordinary gestures; and as you read along, dear...
I recently came across the book Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water written by naturalist and eco-philosopher Kathleen Dean Moore, which features twenty essays invoking a wide range of different waters and terrains. Each river essay she begins writing alongside...
The divine resides in the heart. In my essay What The Snow Queen Knows, we saw what happens when a human heart freezes; how despair and disconnection can make us feel alone in a shiny fortress; how when we lose our tenderness, we ultimately lose our heart; and how we...
… and i yearn for yarn to follow the braidsearching the truth of the cloth i just madewhere wild meets wise in my animal eyesbounding threads into clothes, so unseen they bind ~ poetry excerpts from The God-like Things by Lubomira Kourteva In the old days, rites...
Once when I was a little girl, we were renovating the flooring in our house and I gathered the leftover parquet pieces; I glued them together so that I’d make furniture for my dollhouse. My dollhouse was an empty cupboard in my room. Limits make you creative,...
Myths, stories and tales work in our subconscious as a vehicle of remembering, of initiating, and of awakening. They follow basic human archetypes, reflecting our human condition. They awaken parts of our psyche, of our abilities and retrace a shared part of humanity,...