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A needed symbol.
Light of the heart.
In Hawai’i, Kukui nuts (from the Kukui tree) were used as candles or torches in ancient times. Using the rib of a palm leaf, the nuts were strung in a row to provide hours of light, as each nut burned sequentially in a row. “Kukui” means lamp or light. They allowed telling stories, illuminating dark nights, connection in the midst of a vast ocean.
I arranged the...
So, it is the season of All Souls Day, the Day of the Dead, when we enter the time of year that brings us to a season of endings and renewals. For some reasons, this year pausing on these ideas seems important to me. I guess I am arriving at an age, where I want to stop and feel these parts of life – and I think others do to (maybe you too?).
Today, I sent out an email to many of remarkable women in...
Jun 7th, 2012
Purpose isn’t born simply
Purpose isn’t born simply. You’ve got to just mess with it. What is your process? What is it you do when you’re not looking? Give your self permission to do your process. It will take 2-3, stages or more, so release into it. The ingredients don’t fit the way YOU think. (It is SUPER EASY to say this and SUPER -NOT- easy to give yourself permission to do this; to spend time fiddling, releasing,...
Jun 5th, 2012
Accepting This
a poem by Mark Nepo Yes, it is true. I confess, I have thought great thoughts, and sung great songs—all of it rehearsal for the majesty of being held. The dream is awakened when thinking I love you and life begins when saying I love you and joy moves like blood when embracing others with love. My efforts now turn from trying to outrun suffering to accepting love wherever I can find it. Stripped of causes and...
Nov 10th, 2011
Kukui nut beads – the symbol of enlightenment, protection & peace
Nov 7th, 2011
My thought for the day: We have to be something on the inside long before it means something on the outside
This just seems relevant in so many ways. So many of us try to find meaning the other way around. We work so hard on things on the outside to try to make us feel good on the inside, gain identity by living from the outside in. But…. it doesn’t work that way. We have to be something on the inside, grapple with it, let it be in us — wrestle with all the barriers and old wounds to be faced to truly...
Nov 2nd, 2011
Intentions on this Season of endings
