Category Archives: Spirit

To Take Care of Myself with Love

Posted on March 19, 2023 by jenny

The last few days I’ve been struggling with the feeling of being totally disconnected. Today it suddenly occurred to me that that feeling was not me, but one of the very young traumatized parts. As soon as I saw that … Continue reading →

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“May all beings be held in lovingkindness”

Posted on March 7, 2023 by jenny

Monday, March 6     Writing group: Nothing to say.    No where to go.    Once upon a time I was able to do left hand writing.  I called it that, but it wasn’t literally writing with my left hand, … Continue reading →

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Who is “Myself”?

Posted on March 4, 2023 by jenny

From my journal for Monday, January 23 Lying in bed before I got up, I didn’t feel like myself.  When I got up, I asked myself “Who knows I don’t feel like myself?”  — and who is it who asks? … Continue reading →

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Let Grief Speak

Posted on February 25, 2023 by jenny

Monday, February 20     Writing group: I want to write about grief.  Hard to get into. ask my grief to speak. Grief, what do you have to say? So deep and old.  So long ago.  Grief never allowed, never assuaged.  … Continue reading →

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Three Haiku

Posted on February 2, 2023 by jenny

After I did that writing, there was still more time — we write for 20 minutes — so I wrote about what I could see: on the table with me, reflected in the window in front of me, and finally … Continue reading →

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Tong-len

Posted on January 31, 2023 by jenny

Written in Writing Group: Woke up this morning feeling sad, lonely, discouraged.  Then I thought that there must be a lot of lonely old women, without family, who wake up feeling like that.  Feeling the presence of all these people … Continue reading →

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Folk Dancing Feeds my Soul

Posted on January 23, 2023 by jenny

From an earlier post called “When did you stop dancing?” “In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited or depressed, they would ask one of four questions:  When did you stop dancing?  … Continue reading →

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March 1976: The Journal is Center

Posted on December 14, 2022 by jenny

First posted on July 2, 2012 from my journal, written in March 1976 Today I felt very depressed and sick.  The old fear came back, fear of the ringing phone, of the sun and wind outside.  I went looking for … Continue reading →

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“Whatever you have done or not done, Welcome!”

Posted on December 4, 2022 by jenny

This probably happened in 2011, but I didn’t write it down.  I wrote this description and posted it in August 2013: I was feeling bad about myself and my life and that I hadn’t done anything worth while with it.  … Continue reading →

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Halleluia Chorus from Quinhagak, Alaska

Posted on November 27, 2022 by jenny

One thing that’s fun about reading through my blog again is I find things that cheer me up.  I posted this in October 2012, and it just cheered me up again.

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