I recently took a book off my shelf titled "Women In Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women." The beautiful wisdom pouring from the pages is inspiring.

Antiphon for Divine Wisdom, by Hildegard of Bingen

Sophia!
you of the whirling wings,
circling encompassing
energy of God:

you quicken the world in your clasp.

One wing soars in heaven
one wing sweeps the earth
and the third flies all around us.

Praise to Sophia!
Let all the earth praise her! read more

After all
the prayers
have been said,
and the tears shed
and the uncomfortable silences,
when we cannot respond,
endured
there remains
the soft, tender sorrow
that time does not heal.

And in that sorrow,
Fatah,
an opening
to the genuine sadness
of being alive ---
open to
the absolute necessity
of letting go
of everyone
and everything
we love.

We can close off
this deep sadness
or open
our tender hearts
so wide
that our heart
becomes as an
open sky ---

no bo... read more

If I had given up,
I would not have had
that sunset.
You see? That? That
is something.
Light between
the cracks of pain,
pain that cracks the
numbing
flesh
beneath the stone.

This tree,
these leaves
are testimony:

Winter does not last
forever.

And neither does
summer.

And neither
does winter.

~ Karyn Milos

Be my buffalo head nickel, my foreboding mountain, the leg I don’t have to stand on.

What if there were big things at stake?
Be my ruckus. Be my shoot-out.

Be my corduroy, my perfect non-sequitor.
Be my cedilla.

Be my circuit breaker, my prosecuting attorney, my lengthening shadows at dusk, my nest
of pine needles, my second-story window, my autodialler.

Be my hilarious fugue, baroque rococo.

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The key to saying “I am satisfied” at the end of life.

"Finding this kind of deep satisfaction at the end of life seems to be more about knowing that you have been able to make a difference. That your life has mattered. And this may require living more closely to the feminine—to the world of relationship and healing and connection. This may be more about recognizing who you have touched on your way through life and who has touched you, and how deeply. And what you are leaving behind you in... read more