All the beauty of the world is yours ©Stella Body 2020 (A theme for the women who will survive Covid-19) Tonight, I chance to look out at the tree, taller now than my house, that has looked in my bedroom window for thirty years, that has seen births, tears, sadnesses and songs: Bride tree,Continue reading “All the Beauty of the World is Yours”
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The Gift of Surrender
The Gift of Surrender ©Stella Body 2020 A man runs back and forth just off the shore, trying to get airborne with a small sail. For hours he submits to being dragged, dunked, wrenched off his feet by the waves. Still he won’t let go. The apparatus to which he clings looks like a GreekContinue reading “The Gift of Surrender”
The Gift of Solitude
A Light Touch ©Stella Body 2020 Among silvery-nude sumac branches and the sun-bronzed, stemless torsos of coltsfoot, I walk steeply, beautifully alone. So much, that when something startles out of the poplars, my mind receives it lightly, as though it were blown by the wind. My limbs absorb its dance into their own moving, raisingContinue reading “The Gift of Solitude”
A woman who flew over the Earth
I.M. Jenn Casey, d. May 17, 2020 Once there was a woman who flew over the Earth. She came to love the winds and waves, as one might be transfixed by a dancer’s grace. Like fabric that drapes across a moving torso, the ocean tides held her gaze. Perhaps the planet felt the keennessContinue reading “A woman who flew over the Earth”
Gift of a True Voice
Gift of a True Voice (The Uncounted) Copyright Stella Body 2020 “All things sing you: at times we just hear them more clearly.” – Rilke, Poems to God A southern wind swirls around the dark-planed walls of the city, loosening its angles, lifting the light into a roundness. We raise our eyes to findContinue reading “Gift of a True Voice”
A Mindful Way to remember Mother’s Day
Today it is Mother’s Day, 2020. There are red-winged blackbirds singing, and apple blossoms to to see with my family, but I have something else on my mind. I’m wondering how long my family will continue. I want to alert Canada’s mothers to a situation which is threatening to destroy the future of every oneContinue reading “A Mindful Way to remember Mother’s Day”
Shared Journeys: Haiku for Health
Shared Journeys: Haiku for Health ©Stella Body 2020 Today, as we approach Mother’s Day, I am thinking of all those who are in hospital, and who wish they could step out the door. My mother died almost five years ago, and my father moved heaven and earth so that she could come home first, and seeContinue reading “Shared Journeys: Haiku for Health”
A Mother, the Sea
A Mother, the Sea ©Stella Body 2020 Nine months. That’s how long it has taken for my house, brimming with family for over twenty years, to change to an empty nest. In just that time, our terrier has died, my daughter has moved to the opposite side of the country, and, just yesterday, my sonContinue reading “A Mother, the Sea”
Who is the Animist? Into the Forest with Kyle Pearce
Who is the Animist? Into the Forest with Kyle Pearce ©Stella Body 2020 Like that of the leaves is a generation of men… Tell me, Muse, of the man of many devices, who wandered far and wide . -Homer. The Odyssey Last summer, after Tuesday morning Yoga in the YMCA gym, a group of us wereContinue reading “Who is the Animist? Into the Forest with Kyle Pearce”
The Gift of Soaring:Live class- Animism and how it Heals
I came home from the soaring in which I lost myself. I was song, and the refrain which is God is still roaring in my ears. -Rilke, Love Poems to God The Gift of Soaring Animists in the original sense believe the divine is present in all things, and celebrate that with their lives andContinue reading “The Gift of Soaring:Live class- Animism and how it Heals”
Gifts from the Trail 