Thank you for the mention. It feels heartwarming to be acknowledged and seen. You brought me back to the moments when I would get phone calls in the middle of poetry workshops and when I answered the phone all I would hear is my infant child shrieking in the background and the words... "You need to come home..." And my last featured poetry reading in at the KGB Bar when he was in the audience and whenever anyone clapped he would cry... and so I brought him to the mic with me, held him against my chest and read quietly asking everyone to practically whisper. After the reading, I sat down and told my husband... I think this is my last poetry reading for a while...
But he called me, really, as he was a messenger from from the universe--
I really appreciate this very down-to-earth, relatable post on the sutras. I have had a somewhat different experience of birth: very long labors (5 days of prodromal labor for my daughter, 40 hours of labor for my son); still, some amount of fear, too because of unknowns and past experiences. I feel that labor and birth so SOOO challenging for most for so many reasons. I'll have to think of what I can let go of in my past. I've been doing therapy and it's bringing up so much from the past but I haven't quite worked out how to let go of those things that I thought I had already let go of...I'll comment again soon!
The act of letting go is continuous, I think. Lots of work that takes lots of revisiting. While we want letting go to be some concrete process that is the equivalent of emptying a cup of water, it just doesn't work that way. It's like a slow drip in a leaky faucet that's a nuisance and we create workarounds for years until we finally get around to attending to it. Not fixing, or solving a problem, but attending. Letting go, paradoxically, is about letting something be in our presence so that it's metabolized. That's how I'm coming to understand it these days :)
What a beautiful offering, and reminder Ashley! (My second birth took 2 hours of labour and I bled so badly. I totally get you!)
It is such a beautiful offering!
Thank you Imola! Two hours!!! Aye, lol.
Thank you for the mention. It feels heartwarming to be acknowledged and seen. You brought me back to the moments when I would get phone calls in the middle of poetry workshops and when I answered the phone all I would hear is my infant child shrieking in the background and the words... "You need to come home..." And my last featured poetry reading in at the KGB Bar when he was in the audience and whenever anyone clapped he would cry... and so I brought him to the mic with me, held him against my chest and read quietly asking everyone to practically whisper. After the reading, I sat down and told my husband... I think this is my last poetry reading for a while...
But he called me, really, as he was a messenger from from the universe--
to motherhood, to nurturing, to healing trauma,
and to love, real love.
And so, I am grateful...
I can't wait to share your interview. So powerful, so real, and such an embodiment of yogic living :)
🙏🏻❤️
I look forward to Corie's interview as well! Her work is so beautiful:)
It's so good. It was a really inspiring conversation.
I really appreciate this very down-to-earth, relatable post on the sutras. I have had a somewhat different experience of birth: very long labors (5 days of prodromal labor for my daughter, 40 hours of labor for my son); still, some amount of fear, too because of unknowns and past experiences. I feel that labor and birth so SOOO challenging for most for so many reasons. I'll have to think of what I can let go of in my past. I've been doing therapy and it's bringing up so much from the past but I haven't quite worked out how to let go of those things that I thought I had already let go of...I'll comment again soon!
The act of letting go is continuous, I think. Lots of work that takes lots of revisiting. While we want letting go to be some concrete process that is the equivalent of emptying a cup of water, it just doesn't work that way. It's like a slow drip in a leaky faucet that's a nuisance and we create workarounds for years until we finally get around to attending to it. Not fixing, or solving a problem, but attending. Letting go, paradoxically, is about letting something be in our presence so that it's metabolized. That's how I'm coming to understand it these days :)