If you’ve got nothing better to do, go play with this! Thanks, Andy, for the link.
Author Archives: ashley
Words
I love words. I love simple words and words I have never heard before. I love old words and the original meaning of words. It’s like floating back to the roots, always trying to capture the essence which lies beyond. I love how simple words stringed together can take me on a journey, play on […]
Emerging Independence
More personal confessions… It’s strange to me how much I “need” to have others validate things that I do or experience, how much I can deny my own experiencing, minimizing it, not honoring the fullness of intensity that is my living or the guided action that emerges from my listening. For example, I’ve noticed lately […]
Courage and Willingness to Die and Be Born
Caitlin Frost doesn’t yet have her own webl, but she is filled with and shares in her daily life a tremendous amount of insight, experience, inquiry and love. This comment she left at the Living With an Open Heart thread is too powerful of a teaching, a potent expression of practice, to leave in the […]
Words, Inner Worlds and Longings
It is said that every gift or strength that we have is accompanied with a shadow side. Light casts shadows; attributes that serve us can also inhibit us in other ways. I like playing with words. I enjoy shaping them together in efforts to express meaning. My goal is for another to easily receive and […]
Following the Patterns
… noticing a pattern … I’m in conversations with two different friends around topics of living with an open heart and letting go…I couldn’t help but laugh when I felt these two lines together… they seem to sum up so much. Open – close – open – close… Fuck it. Compassion. Fuck it. Compassion. Which […]
Online Meditation
Please consider joining us for another online meditation tomorrow, Friday, June 29th at 9:00 am Pacific Time in the Santuary at Wings. You can visit last week’s meditation by going here. After a phone conversation with Amy today (who plans to be present for the meditation tomorrow) I find myself lightly holding a theme of […]