Beauty. Holding A Torch (Protect Your Dreams)

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Leonard Shlain (RIP), in his book The Alphabet versus the Goddess, highlights how visual beauty is always the first aspect of the feminine (right-brain) to be stripped by the masculine -- not the healthy masculine -- when a society becomes obsessed with its left-brain talents. Women are covered or shamed for their very sensuality. Art is destroyed. Music is banned. The list goes on. He points to the Spanish Inquisition, Witch hunts, the Greco-Roman reform of their religion to brutally remove the female as the bearers of life and today's main patriarchal religions that have also removed women as bearers of life.

If you're paying attention, today the term "motherhood" offends. Any enjoyment of physical beauty offends -- disguised as offence taken by society's narrow definition of beauty. To attribute femininity largely to women also offends. And yet, we see that the feminine is rising again, regardless…

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Yes, all of that is my first name

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"Remember that a person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language". -- excerpt from Dale Carnegie's"How to win friends and influence people"

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Happy Birthday to Me

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Happy new year, new day, new moment, to you and yours, and to me and mine. Born in January, it's easy for me to say my new year begins on my birthday. Still, I have new beginnings in November and September, just innately, intuitively, so I think you really choose the start to your personal new year.

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The beautiful paradox of being positive and embracing light and shadow

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Imported from one of my first my blogs, before closing it, I hope this gives you that 'expanded within' feeling that happens when you have a true deep awakening that invites you into more of yourself.

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Racism? In the GTA? Really?

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I almost threw up today when I was forced to face just how racist my neighbourhood is.

I never talk about racism and rarely about sexism or age-ism or generation bias — I think people have a right to like and not like what they will. Human nature means our primal brains (not our neo-cortex, though!) are still most comfortable with the familiar. Fair. But to hate so much as to have to act on it? I just thought the GTA, being cosmopolitan, would have fewer instances of it.

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