Element of Launch ©Stella Body 2020 A woman wearing a hijab is taking two children out in a canoe. I watch the lake unfold its hugeness, the sky bring its boulders down. She hesitates a moment, but once in, she sits dead center, straight as Joan of Arc, saddled by the twin forms of herContinue reading “Element of Launch”
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Element of Wild
Element of Wild ©Stella Body The flash taught me to be calm, not to lose light in the sky, to search inside of myself for the galleries of earth… -Pablo Neruda In the summer night, I find you, perched in a branch above me. Your markings, the subdued gray and white of one who once decorated aContinue reading “Element of Wild”
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”
Light-hearted Words for Spring
From members of our virtual writing infusions Areta Marshall: Love is like an oak tree Strong Surviving the cold of winter Rebekah Lazarski: Lonely beats the heart That has long since forgotten Spring follows winter Mother Spring Gathers gently all Her lonely children Linda Cassidy: on a trout stream a wedding boat drifts after darkContinue reading “Light-hearted Words for Spring”
The Healing Power of Memoir
The Healing Power of Memoir Copyright Stella Body 2020 I feel it now: there’s a power in me, to grasp and give shape to the world. -Rilke There are many ways to remember. Linda Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way, suggests that if we are not yet comfortable with words, we can start with aContinue reading “The Healing Power of Memoir”
Energy Infusion: Neruda and Springsteen on Writing
Energy Infusion: Neruda and Springsteen on Writing While I am writing, I’m far away; and when I come back, I’ve gone. I would like to know if others go through the same things that I do, have as many selves as I have…-Neruda How is your energy-level during the pandemic? Are you able to live,Continue reading “Energy Infusion: Neruda and Springsteen on Writing”
The Gift of Focus
The Gift of Focus ©Stella Body 2020 You don’t know the one who is right before your eyes, because you don’t know how to search into this very moment. -Jesus, quoted by Stephen Mitchell in The Enlightened Mind The Zen concept of ‘present-moment awareness’ is one that seemed strange to me at first. My earlyContinue reading “The Gift of Focus”
The Gift of Flow
The Gift of FLOW ©Stella Body 2020 “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy…” –Rumi (14th Century Persian mystic, from The Soul of Rumi, trans. Coleman Barks) I first encountered the adult concept of ‘flow’ when my son was a curly-haired three-year-old with deep, sloe eyes. WeContinue reading “The Gift of Flow”
A Gift you can use Today: The Creative Pause
In Unfamiliar Woods (Intro) Copyright Stella Body 2020 Learn of the green world what can be thy place. –Ezra Pound In unfamiliar woods, I turn suddenly, lookContinue reading “A Gift you can use Today: The Creative Pause”
Yoga for the Mind: Free Virtual Class for Creative People
In a deep ravine, far from the town and trails, I take a rough route over ground that, a month ago, was creek-bed. After waking to more news of Corona virus, I’m restless, need to keep moving. Then I come to an obstacle. A huge tree, struck by wind and rain, fallen overnight from theContinue reading “Yoga for the Mind: Free Virtual Class for Creative People”
Gifts from the Trail 