The Gambia’s president has outlawed Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), a practice that affects three quarters of women in the West African country—a move that will surely send a message to those who believe the practice is justified. The Guardian reports that the ban is...
“I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps. I hunger for your sleek laugh, your hands the color of a savage harvest,...
“The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the whole world’s joy.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher Have you heard of sun gazing? I first heard about it when I got into earthing—the health boosting habit of walking barefoot upon the earth. The more people I...
The Full Moon Goddess rises from her seat in the heavens on November 25th. Welcome to the Full Frost Moon in Gemini. Her influence will be felt deep within our ancient self, and for those wondering why we are at her mercy once again, the answer is simple yet profound....
“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.” ~ Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility. Have I...
When I was a child, I had no concept of what narcissism meant. I had no idea that I was involved in a parent/child relationship that could only be the worst possible scenario: a narcissist parent with an empath child. Because I didn’t know what I was involved in, I...
