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“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.

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Do it!! I would love to see you! 🧘‍♀️

These kids have seriously healed my heart so much. 🩷

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So glad to know my piece was resonant. All love and thank you. ❤️

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This is beautiful, thank you. The Rebecca Woolf piece was especially impactful so I appreciate that recommendation.

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Thanks for reading. And I just love her honesty so much - glad you appreciated it too.

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"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 💜

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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 💙

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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 😉💜

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Thank you! I love the deck so much!

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Beautiful & what a lucky daughter to have you modeling what it means to LIVE & Love. Acknowledging our interconnectedness. Acknowledging the pain. Acknowledging. ❤️

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🩷🩷🩷 trying to break those generational cycles every damn day!

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Thank you for this, Lindsey. Holding you in my heart too, amidst all of everything.

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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.

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I think “joy as resistance” is a beautiful thought.

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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

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