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”
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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 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”
Gifts from the Trail 