Waltzing with Freya

It's truly Freya's day as we celebrate International Women's Day and a New Moon prepares for its birth .

Yin is the Mother of the 10,000 things. – Lao Tzu

“Adam's final act of naming is to name his wife, Eve, inaugurating the religious basis for the masculine's ownership over the feminine. What we name, we often feel we own. What we name, we feel we understand well enough to name. And when we believe we have arrived at understanding, we stop asking questions. We close ourselves off from surprise.”
― Sophie Strand, The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine, Inner Traditions: Bear and Company, 2022.

Waltzing the aisles at the 5&10

Singer and host of NPR’s Mountain Stage, Kathy Mattea on claiming aging . . .

Love at the Five and Dime. Kathy Mattea

Speed of the Sound of Loneliness … John Prine and Nanci Griffith

Remembering Nanci Griffith

Just Once (in a Very Blue Moon) Nanci Griffith

Tide Turn on a Winter Day

He is all the father was, and what the father was not

grows great in him. – Rilke

Wine dark sea

red dawn sky.

Forever ago a glass calm.

Magenta sails

on a flat earth

incomprehensible as death,

birth bewildering

as the woman bringing it

from wherever the wind is born,

inconceivable as a round earth

conceived

in the imagination

of a mother's child

on a chilly hillside shore

playing with stones.

– jab