“I am my own keeper, and my heart belongs to me.“ So beautiful. Also: Carl is my jam! Maybe see you in meditation sometime. I flirt with the idea of it and never do it 🤷🏻♀️ Re: your grief rain, my kids have sweetly comforted me so many times. It is so pure, their innate kindness. 🫶🏽 thank you for sharing from your heart.
"The pain is also the medicine." This is so true and a learning that I wish I had been taught in schools before I had to work out the hard way. We have to be with the pain rather than push it away and only then can it alchemise.
On another note: the damage that fundamentalism has done is extreme. Thank you for sharing your views here. Unfortunately it seems that in this current climate it is risky to express a care for ALL humanity.
This is such a powerful letter. Thank you for sharing. I feel like I need to turn off my phone and away from the world, and pick up my tarot deck. I love the Pagan Otherworlds deck 😉💜
Beautiful & what a lucky daughter to have you modeling what it means to LIVE & Love. Acknowledging our interconnectedness. Acknowledging the pain. Acknowledging. ❤️
I resonated so strongly with your thoughts, Lindsey. My sensitive emotional heart has been heavy for all those suffering in war. Also I want to resist the pressure to take a side in mutual hatred that leads only to more suffering. Spiritually, in contrast, I have felt oddly light and joyful. At first I was puzzled and embarrassed to be feeling that way, but those I trust said to go with it bc the world needs light to counterbalance the tragedy. Perhaps that is my personal role in all of it--to try to be a balancing light and focus on hope for peace. Anyway, thanks for giving words to what so many of us feel.
“I am my own keeper, and my heart belongs to me.“ So beautiful. Also: Carl is my jam! Maybe see you in meditation sometime. I flirt with the idea of it and never do it 🤷🏻♀️ Re: your grief rain, my kids have sweetly comforted me so many times. It is so pure, their innate kindness. 🫶🏽 thank you for sharing from your heart.
Do it!! I would love to see you! 🧘♀️
These kids have seriously healed my heart so much. 🩷
So glad to know my piece was resonant. All love and thank you. ❤️
This is beautiful, thank you. The Rebecca Woolf piece was especially impactful so I appreciate that recommendation.
Thanks for reading. And I just love her honesty so much - glad you appreciated it too.
"The pain is also the medicine." This is so true and a learning that I wish I had been taught in schools before I had to work out the hard way. We have to be with the pain rather than push it away and only then can it alchemise.
On another note: the damage that fundamentalism has done is extreme. Thank you for sharing your views here. Unfortunately it seems that in this current climate it is risky to express a care for ALL humanity.
We must keep our hearts and our minds open.
Thank you. Jo 💜
Thank you for reading, Jo. And yes, I so wish we were taught these lessons earlier - trying my best to break cycles with my kids 💙
This is such a powerful letter. Thank you for sharing. I feel like I need to turn off my phone and away from the world, and pick up my tarot deck. I love the Pagan Otherworlds deck 😉💜
Thank you! I love the deck so much!
Beautiful & what a lucky daughter to have you modeling what it means to LIVE & Love. Acknowledging our interconnectedness. Acknowledging the pain. Acknowledging. ❤️
🩷🩷🩷 trying to break those generational cycles every damn day!
Thank you for this, Lindsey. Holding you in my heart too, amidst all of everything.
I resonated so strongly with your thoughts, Lindsey. My sensitive emotional heart has been heavy for all those suffering in war. Also I want to resist the pressure to take a side in mutual hatred that leads only to more suffering. Spiritually, in contrast, I have felt oddly light and joyful. At first I was puzzled and embarrassed to be feeling that way, but those I trust said to go with it bc the world needs light to counterbalance the tragedy. Perhaps that is my personal role in all of it--to try to be a balancing light and focus on hope for peace. Anyway, thanks for giving words to what so many of us feel.
I think “joy as resistance” is a beautiful thought.
Oh my gosh Lindsey thank you for the mention--I'm so glad it was helpful. And an honor to be mentioned among a writer like Rebecca Woolf <3
Love and light <3