Category Archives: Journal

More from 1992

Posted on July 10, 2012 by jenny

From my journal for May 1992 I start to feel scared and totally blasted —  it’s the old familiar panic — can’t breathe, can’t make my mind focus, can’t make decisions.  Feel totally overwhelmed.  Also feeling that unpleasant combination of … Continue reading →

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April 1992: Ondine

Posted on July 9, 2012 by jenny

This was written in April of 1992.  “Ondine” was the name of a journal volume that I kept from January to May 1970.  In those days I named each of my notebooks in imitation of Anaïs Nin.  On the first … Continue reading →

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July 1992: The Journal is a Safe Space

Posted on July 4, 2012 by jenny

(Another entry from Ritual Year, written July 1992) Vision.  I always forget, when making visions, that the inner reality is much more important than the outer one.  In some ways it’s much easier to create a vision of a completed … Continue reading →

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Ritual Year

Posted on July 3, 2012 by jenny

I’ve been going through “Ritual Year” and I like it.  I thought it was all negativity but it’s not.  I just read one about a therapy session with Karen.  A blood-soaked bundle holding the pieces of a childhood that had … Continue reading →

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March 1976: The Journal is Center

Posted on July 2, 2012 by jenny

(from Ritual Year: 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 an escapist book, but could not … Continue reading →

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June 1993: Ereshkigal

Posted on June 30, 2012 by jenny

(Written in June of 1993, in  Writers Group: a guided meditation, I can’t remember now if it was something I read out loud, or something that was on a tape.) I was on a mountainside, by a stream, a view … Continue reading →

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April 1992: Truth Express

Posted on June 28, 2012 by jenny

(I wrote this in a writing group I was facilitating in April of 1992) I want to do a more focussed writing.  I’m sick of rambling.  Yet I don’t have any topic to write about.  I want to go for … Continue reading →

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Email to my Psychiatrist

Posted on May 25, 2012 by jenny

(Written in September 2009) I’m doing very badly. My sleep was broken last night.  This has been a pattern lately: I wake up at 4 or 5, go back to bed with a CD and do my breath exercise (which … Continue reading →

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Thoughts about Truth

Posted on April 23, 2012 by jenny

I’ve been sitting here puzzling over the nature of “truth.”  Someone who was at my presentation last night started talking about people living long ago being warlike.  I asked “How do you know?” and he couldn’t really tell me.  I … Continue reading →

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No Expectations

Posted on April 9, 2012 by jenny

(Written in September 2010) It’s interesting. I’m feeling OK right now.  Yesterday I decided that I wasn’t going to do anything today, I also expected to feel horrible and figured I’d just soldier on.  This has happened other times when … Continue reading →

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