Dear Goddess, I've been getting Acupuncture treatments, and today was my second one. I love my acupuncturist, Min, who is obviously a born healer. She is treating a 30 year history of chronic neck pain. Stubborn neck pain, may I add. While my Chi is getting strong and centered, my neck is feeling like it ran a full out marathon. I know that the neck will catch up to the rest of me, as I stretch and massage it tenderly. So who am I really as I go about this transformation? I am not the … [Read more...]

Dear Goddess, This is you as a 3 year old pup, Mr Man. You were one of the intense Ones. You herded our sheep up the lane, across three properties and into the golf course--then you disappeared. I led the sheep easily back to the house. I remember praying--please, please come back. And when you did, you knew you were in deep doodoo. But I was so happy to see you again that I just hugged and hugged you, but of course you nipped me on the nose. The very first thing you did when I picked … [Read more...]

Dear Goddess, One of the wonderful things I have learned by writing prayers, and this lesson came to me spontaneously and automatically, is that I don't need to know or have proof of why things happen, like illness, pain or crisis. Yes, it is human nature to need proof and even garner statistics for the events and experiences of our lives. When challenges arise, we all tend to want to find reasons that point to something we did or did not do to make "it" happen. People might think if they … [Read more...]

Dear Goddess, Today we met an old friend of Tomaso's and we had a refreshingly honest talk about our lives, especially the lives of this person and Tomaso and what they went through together over the years, especially 35 odd years ago. The conversation reminded me of the old conscious raising days of the 1970's: No idle gossip, just an honest assessment of where we used to be and how far we have come, as well as how far we still have to go, in a process of never arriving, simply enjoying … [Read more...]