Imagine a woman in love with her own body. A woman who believes her body is enough, just as it is. Who celebrates its rhythms and cycles as an exquisite resource. Imagine a woman who honors the body of the Goddess in her changing body. A woman who celebrates the accumulation of her years and wisdom. Who… Read More
First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love. ― Maya Angelou My lovely boyfriend went out early this morning and bought me flowers and a card. He’s a bit of alright.
‘I‘m sad that it took me forty-five years to understand what real love is,’ I said to my mother on the phone. ‘I wasted so much of my life.’ ‘Be happy you figured it out at all,’ she said. ‘The lady next door lost her husband last week. She is in her seventies. She has… Read More
A crone is a juicy older woman with zest, passions, and soul. If you aspire to be one, the secret is to be yourself, while your mind, heart and body still function well enough, and you appreciate being alive. – Jean Shinoda Bolen, Crones Don’t Whine
You Look So Young When I was a child I couldn’t wait to get older. I wanted to be thirteen so I could get my ears pierced, sixteen so I could have boyfriend, seventeen so I could drive and eighteen so I could vote. Even though it seemed to take a long, long time, I… Read More
Don’t worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come? ~ Rumi
I have a singlet on, but because my hair is covering it, I look as though I am naked. I am not naked, not even close ♥
“I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.”
If you meet a woman of whatever complexion who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance, talk to her. And what you will find is that there has been a suffering, that at some time she has left herself for hanging dead. ― Sena Jeter Naslund, Ahab’s Wife, or The Star-Gazer
Make a home out of your body, live in yourself, do not let people turn you into a regret, do not justify yourself.
When my boyfriend and I started going out, every month we celebrated the anniversary of the night we met. It has become a tradition that we still continue. So today, on the 5th February, we have been together for fifty-eight months or four years and ten months. Another month has sped by and I couldn’t… Read More
The biggest problem is figuring out something deep and meaningful to write every single day. I guess my life isn’t that interesting. Oh, look at the time — it’s after 3pm and I haven’t eaten yet. We’ve run out of tissues so I’m blowing my nose on paper napkins. One side of my nose runs… Read More
“Bring it all. I am not afraid of the dark.”
