Strange Days

Strangely holey
Can you deny a hole so hard that it goes away? Or will it always be there, underneath the denial, until you find a way to fill it?However hard I try to escape the black holes in my mind, the darkness, the emptiness, I only manage so far. It's not an escape in the sense of thinking I can get away from it; more a temporary escape from the feelings while waiting for the light to return. But there is more to it than the darkness of depression. That doesn't account for the emptiness and the hole inside. Only partially.I keep thinking that if I fake being whole, act as if I were, fill my life with things that make me feel alive, I will be whole. "Fake it 'til you

Deep Listening Lesson 16: Listen as a caregiver
Another useful lesson in listening from Nithya Shanti. The text belongs to him and no copyright infringement is intended. Simply credit where credit due.Listen as a caregiverListening and understanding is a form of caregiving. Every form of caregiving is an expression of love. Whether the caregiving occurs in the form of attending to babies and young children, the lonely, the elderly, the frail and the dying, or simply caring for the person who next

The girl who silenced the world
If you don’t know how to fix it, stop breaking itYou've got to be inspired by any child who dares do this, when so many adults keep quiet.This video is from the UN Earth Summit in Brazil 1992. The speaker in this video is the then 12-year-old Canadian girl Severn Cullis-Suzuki.I am only a child. Yet I know that if all the money spent on war was spent on ending poverty and finding environmental answers, what a wonderful place this would be. In school you teach us not to fight with others, to work things out, to respect others, to clean up our mess, not t

Stasis in darkness
There is no flow hereNo way outLike a pool of stagnant waterBlackened putrefactionBeing stirredBut there is no flow hereStasis in darknessDarkness closing inSqeezing tighterA dark entrapment, cold embracePowerless and immobileIn a dark shellThere is no way out hereMother of pearlOr is the dark shell a chrysalis?When a moonbeam penetrates the black waterWill I find the key to my powerLike the Phoenix rise from darknessSpread my wings in freedomAnd soar to the sky©

Reasons why I can't or reasons why I can?
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to,when all they need is one reason why they can.~Martha GrahamThis is so true! It always seems to be easier to find reasons to why I couldn't or shouldn't do something (in other words usually known as excuses), than reasons to why I can or shall. I wonder why? Where along the way did I learn to make excuses rather than to just do it? Who taught me that - my mother, my teachers, "society"?And making excuses instead of doing is so accepted, pretty much the norm in society. We need to change that in order to