Claiming Our Voices

Monday Evening
January 18th

Handling the Hard Times
Coping with Anxiety in these Dark Days

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Mary’s house
24 Benton Avenue
Great Barrington
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6 pm
potluck and circle

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These are uncertain times!

Are you struggling to find enough work?
Has last year’s crash eroded your bank account?
Does anxiety about the future
 eat away at your well being?
Do you carry burdens that test your strength?
How [...]

Radical Self Care at the Turning of the Seasons
I’m just back from two glorious weeks at the ocean. Days spent leaping over and diving into the post-storm foamy waves of the Atlantic. Feeling my thigh muscles come alive peddling up the steep rises on Block Island, then relishing the rush of air parting around my [...]

This past weekend the lengthening light began playing tricks with my brain. 6:45 in the evening felt much more like 5:45. How could it be that late and still be so light??? Oh, that’s right, we’re almost at the Summer Solstice. This weekend we’ll bask in the longest light of the year.
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 It’s May, It’s May! The lusty month of May! Full of life. Full of change. With each passing day those pale green maple leaves outside my window deepen in color. Just as tulip lips fall to the grass hundreds of sunny dandelions and violets sprinkle the lawn. As the forsythia fades I’m dazzled again by my lilac’s scent and sight… until some new blooming [...]

 A Settlement
by Mary Oliver
 
Look, it’s spring. And last year’s loose dust has turned
into this soft willingness. The wind-flowers have come
up trembling, slowly the brackens are up-lifting their
curvaceous and pale bodies. The thrushes have come
home, none less than filled with mystery, sorrow,
happiness, music, ambition.
 
And I am walking out into all of this with nowhere to
go and [...]

Speaking Your Truth March 2009

How are you at speaking the truth? Your truth? It’s so much easier for many of us to just play nice. To keep the peace. To let the issue float into the past and let a million other [...]