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Today I have a guest post at Jonathan Fields’ blog, and so I want to invite you to head over there to read it. The post is offers a powerful teaching about fear that I learned from the late Rabbi Alan Lew. This beautiful teaching has changed how I think about fear, and particular how [...]
I write in the mornings, and most days when I wake up there is a vague direction for the morning’s writing sitting in my chest. I follow it and see what happens. Today I woke up with such love for you in my heart, and a very simple message: I want you to treat yourself [...]
I want to say this, again: I’ve often been struck by the idea that all the suffering in the world, all the world’s problems and deficits and cruelties are exactly equal in might and force to the love, the gifts, the talents, latent in all the world’s inhabitants. In this way, the world is perfectly [...]
It’s my birthday today. Thank you for showing up here in soulful connection, for being part of my circle, for sharing in this. Here’s my birthday wish, what I want for the year, what the year wants from me, the prayer of thank you & request. Love, Tara *** sun moss wildflowers trees shade dirt [...]
I never believed in death, for I never saw it. I saw only that this became that. The petals fell away, and the thing became a stem, and the floor became scattered in pink. Containers break. Eras end. Thing-ness only a stopping ground, a pause at the train station, followed by moving on. You were [...]
There could be this other way, she said, of living from the inside out. Really doing it, she meant. Letting go of, “I am she, of this name. Of this home, and marriage, and weight. Of this conduct. Of these beliefs, and not those.” Instead, she said, it could be like this: I weave at [...]
Buff off routine. Polish away habit. Sharpen your crystal mind with silent time. Wake yourself by praying to the gods. Surrender all of image. Let go of your outside eyes. Be a foolish animal, gaping at the forest. Be clumsy and too much and wide-eyed. Kill the thing that pulls back reins, and run. -Tara [...]
I didn’t grow up in a rough environment. I grew up being told, almost every day, that I was special. I grew up with lots of love from my family. I got a good education and good grades. I got lots of feedback that I was intelligent, talented and could do all kinds of things [...]
Between five and seven a.m., my mind is different. Life looks different. I have access to longer, sustained focus. I’m more likely to feel the miracle of the world, and well up with tears from it. Between seven and eight, I’ve still got a shot at writing, but there’s more resistance, more mundane stuff tempting [...]
I walked backwards, against time and that’s where I caught the moon, singing at me. I steeped downwards, into my seat and that’s where I caught freedom, waiting for me, like a lilac. I ended thought, and I ended story. I stopped designing, and arguing, and sculpting a happy life. I didn’t die. I didn’t [...]
