Category Archives: truth

Of Salmon and Spider

Posted on October 17, 2010 by Deborah

“…Why bother worrying? It shortens living. I really do wonder why we all make such a big thing out of so many little things when all we’re doing is preparing to die anyway.” I wrote those sentences in 1986. Seventeen … Continue reading →

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Still Far from Home

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Deborah

Pandemonium erupts. Nurses holding me on either side, I totter to the delivery room but not before one last stop at the toilet. Agony that. It actually seems possible to me that the baby could fall into the toilet. It’s … Continue reading →

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Coming Back

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Deborah

I begin the slow return to embracing my animal nature with the birthing process of my children. Still living in Philadelphia area, it’s the early 1960’s now. There are no natural childbirth classes yet, but there is talk of breastfeeding. … Continue reading →

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To be animal . . .or not

Posted on October 10, 2010 by Deborah

The memory of learning that I was an animal, a mammal to be exact, still rivets me. The impact lies in my bones deeply but with a significance that’s hard to articulate. There’s a key somewhere in this memory which … Continue reading →

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Being Animal

Posted on October 8, 2010 by Deborah

“Like night cracked open by the shout of day,” epiphanies change me from one state to another. When I was six or seven, I learned I was an animal. I’ll tell the story after I tell you about the author … Continue reading →

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Polyphony

Posted on October 5, 2010 by Deborah

Simple illness, the kinds we all succumb to from time to time and from which we emerge in a few days, those simple illnesses give gifts. This cold, for me, gifts me with a day of time and solitude. I’ve … Continue reading →

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Walking Toward the Garden

Posted on October 3, 2010 by Deborah

Yesterday, during a window of respite from the terrible onslaught of what appeared to be fluey-headcoldy-sinuspainy-sleep inducing illness, I met a few friends for a Matinee that Matters, a wonder-filled opportunity to see thought provoking films at an historic movie … Continue reading →

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Turning Around

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Deborah

I know the story I want to examine next as I explore “replenishing the practice of wonder,” but that story will have to wait. Serendipity strikes. A different story needs to be written today. And it’s about wonder, too. Befuddlement … Continue reading →

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One human tribe

Posted on March 6, 2010 by Deborah

03/06/10 Ok, World, I don’t yet know how to program this blog yet. And so I keep putting off writing for it which is just an excuse, isn’t it? So I add a new comment here today and tomorrow will … Continue reading →

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Creation Stories and the Sacrifice of Creation

Posted on January 1, 2010 by Deborah

January 1, 2010 Storynight in the storyhut – a mythic structure and transporter all by itself – bundled around the fire, full moon blue shadows on the canvas walls dancing with the yellow-orange flame flickers inside, singing home our ancestors … Continue reading →

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