by Monika Carless | Mar 15, 2019 | Musings
“To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many, many beginnings — all in the same relationship.” – Clarissa Pinkola Estés Estes teaches that in love relationships, each partner “challenges, nourishes, and transforms the...
by Monika Carless | Mar 28, 2018 | Musings
“To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.” ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes “So I’m thinking of writing an article called ‘The Whore Next Door’,” I mused to my partner as he...
by Monika Carless | Mar 14, 2018 | Musings
My latest at The Urban Howl I’ve just watched the movie “The Ritual”. Have you heard of it? I’m not into “horror” as a genre in film making but it was recommended by someone I love and so I did. “The Ritual” is the story of four friends who embark on a hike of...