
Beyond Myself
The First Letter: Mother of the Living World
Words that bite at the bone and stumble toward understanding, for those seeking stability only the heart can provide.
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The First Letter: Mother of the Living World

Watch now | A little video hello from me.

When we feel called to learn a new language, we are being wooed.

Mary Oliver wrote that you only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

We are being whittled by life, down and down, until we finally fit the shape of the self that wishes for us to become it.

This month has been a static of half-formed thoughts and insights.

Hi everyone,

What I am trying to say here is something I have not yet learned to do. Which is perhaps exactly why it needs to be said. Everything that exists was impossible until it wasn't. The fact that I am running my hand along the seam of this impossibility tells me something in me is already beginning to open. It is the first sign of light reaching into a place that is working to become possible. I’ve…

you are afraid of what you already know.

*Thank you for your patience—this is the January post, arriving a little late.