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Feb.09.2011
I find grace in many places. On walks in the woods, while singing with my 100 year old Grandmother, in poems, in hospitals where people struggle to get better every day. Grace is with us in the darndest places if we only stop to acknowledge it.
Despite a recent illness and job loss, I have many...
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Feb.09.2011
The best thing that I ever found was the freedom to be myself. I have lived in loss, pain, happiness, and in the eyes of zealous hate. In the end, the loathing that people produce is the cloaked in smiles and what they can get from you, rather than what they can appreciate when they're around...
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Feb.09.2011
A slave to word, I once again sitIn front of my own cellular-cellulose self.A blank page onto its own narrative.Logos worships its own endless ineffability in vain.- What am I?A space trying to embrace itself, nothing else.Tat tvam asi.
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Feb.01.2011
Today, more than ever before, I love life and that is difficult to do at such a time in my life, with so much unsettled. I feel tenuously poised at times, between what I want and need, and what I can have and what my parents want me to have, and what everyone else wants me to have. But there are so...
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Dec.18.2010
I had a friend take a few pictures of me today. It is a necessary evil - my blogs need pictures, Facebook needs updating, an old friend requested one after several years of us not meeting face-to-face. Pictures are not a fun process for me. I tend to freeze and look stiff, I always end up closing...
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Dec.13.2010
Insomnia caused by hypomania can lead to a split in personality or an alter ego. When my other self is writing she can express herself more clearly than when she is complete with the other self. For instance when I do a post on this site I believe it to be of better quality than the other Denise...
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Aug.14.2010
Working now on a follow-up to God is in the Cracks: A Narrative in Voices, Black Moss Press, 2006. Distributed largely in Canada, book now (with a dozen or so newer poems) awaits a new incarnation, a publisher in the U.S. Again, I'm hearing that voice, the critical father speaker saying, for...
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Jul.28.2010
In the morning, while preparing to go into the world, is a good time to investigate the energies that coat our interior wall. It is best to start @root center ~ Muladhara. Red hot life energy located at the base of the spine; the coccyx center. This center illumines the nerves that go to the...
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Jul.08.2010
Personality is usually understood as a set of characteristics or traits that distinguishes one person from another. Personality is information about you. You are not information. You are that which this information is about. Therefore, you are not your personality. You are not your traits. You are...
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May.13.2010
Namaste ~Today we find our Self at a point in time of limbo; we have arrived at a point between old world thinking and new world thinking. We have outgrown old patterns . The scales of human awareness is tipping; those of us who project a longing for a new world are growing. And by the Law of...
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