https://joyfuel.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/thedaytheactivistsoverslept.mp3 (click above to hear audio description of essay, art and poem) This post is dedicated to the activists, helpers, community servants, and the often unseen sometimes unknowable kindness warriors who continue to show up for the rest of us, to believe there is something they can do to make everything a little better, less […]
(click above to hear audio descriptive reading of essay) Dear Ones, (Yes I feel like using proper punctuation and capitalization today.) I want to get really personal here and talk about something I have never heard anyone talk about: shhhh, this is a big secret that mass media does not want us talking about […]
dear ones, (I am reposting this from my other site, Joyfuel.) I am now creating audio recordings for each of my posts in order to make my posts more accessible, and to describe images in each post.) To listen to the audio recording of me reading this essay click audio button above. the world has […]
dear ones, for the first time in nine days i went to the grocery store. i had a heightened sense of awareness of how everywhere i touched or breathed might possibly contribute to the corona sadness. i was shopping with great intention, purpose and love for five at my house, for my parents, my […]
Audio description on youtube: dear one, when i started making art again and writing for my web site here i had to choose a name. i wanted a name to represent me differently, to remind me of the importance of owning how my posts might potentially ripple out into the world. one way of […]
dear ones, many years ago i was really sick. i had an illness that was never really diagnosed or named. my mental and physical unwellness disrupted every aspect of my life, my understanding of myself, my relationships with people, and my career. you might remember my six-word story: her personal earthquake reinvented her everything. well […]
Sistah Becky,
This reminds me of another of my favorite quotes:
“We don’t have to do anything to be glorious; to be so is our nature. If we have read, studied, and loved; if we have thought as deeply as we could and felt as deeply as we could; if our bodies are instruments of love given and received – then we are the greatest blessing in the world. Nothing needs to be added to that to establish our worth.” — Marianne Williamson, A Woman’s Worth
Thank you for the reminder! xoxo
Peace AND Prosperity,
Kate
Thanks for this, Becky – I really needed it!
Oh, Becky! I adore you!
Beautiful poem! Is it ok if I share it with others (giving you credit, of course)?
Thank you (((ALL))) for holding this supportive and loving space. Linda, I’d be most honored. Thank you. _/\_
I like reading you, thank you very much! And I love the italics of harmful signs of aging and your response to that concept. I’d never thought of it that way. I will happily adopt that idea from you.