Yvonne Aburrow's Blog, page 17
May 25, 2023
Her eyes are flowers
Her eyes are flowers
That turn towards the sun
Her hair is tangling vines that run
Over your carefully manicured lawn
After the rain. She wakes at dawn
Hungry for the kiss of sunlight.
She is the shadows of leaves
The sound of roots pushing into the earth
She is the silent ancient mirth
Of ivy gnawing at buildings
Of the conquest of bindweed. She never
Yields an inch of ground.
She is the smell of wet earth,
Compost and leaf mould and worm-cast,
Her love may be slow but it is vast.
Her hour is always n...
Wandering
Changing Paths challenge day 25 — wandering
Wandering, like wavering and wondering, is a good thing. There is a whole genre of songs in German called Wanderliede, about hiking.
And as JRR Tolkien wisely remarked, not all those who wander are lost.
May 24, 2023
Nature notes (May)
View this post on InstagramNature notes! The mayapples are out; the trilliums are just going over. Forget me nots in flower. Dogwood in bloom. 12°C outside. Saw a rabbit in the woods. Lots of maple keys everywhere. Lots of Jack-by-the-hedge (garlic mustard); it’s an invasive species here.A post shared by 𝗬𝘃𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲 𝗔𝗯𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘄 (@yvonne_aburrow)
Wonder
Changing Paths challenge day 24 — wondering.
There’s wondering in the sense of asking questions about the nature of things, and then there’s wonder in the sense of amazement.
May 23, 2023
Longing
Changing Paths challenge day 23 — longing.
There are various words in other languages that can be approximately translated as longing or yearning. Sehnsucht (German), a longing for a person or a place. Saudade (Portuguese), melancholic longing for a person or a place. Hiraeth (Welsh), a longing for home, possibly unattainable since we cannot revisit the past. Tizita (Amharic-Ethiopian), a longing or yearning, which has given its name to a style of music. Romanian has the word dor, which comes...
May 22, 2023
Unexamined baggage
This is an excerpt from my book, Changing Paths:
“Changing your religious or spiritual path can result in unexamined spiritual, emotional, and intellectual baggage from your previous tradition, which can cause all sorts of issues from depression to anger. We all need to unpack and deal with our unexamined baggage. The Tarot card of the fool traditionally depicts a small dog leaping up and biting the Fool’s butt. The dog can be seen as representing material from the unconscious trying to attra...
May 21, 2023
Family
Changing Paths challenge day 21 — family
There are two types of family — the one you were born into, and the one you choose. If your birth family is problematic for some reason, you can create your own.
May 20, 2023
Hopes and fears
When I chose this prompt, I was thinking of the position in the solar cross Tarot spread that corresponds to hopes and fears.
But now, with the news that we will be crossing the 1.5°C global warming threshold in the next few years, I’m reminded of the Seven Fires Prophecy of the Anishinaabe.
May 19, 2023
Dreams
Once I dreamed that I was walking across a rocky sandy landscape (the bedrock was reddish sandstone) and saw an old church. But the surprising thing was what was inside the church…
A monastery in Crete
May 18, 2023
Solidarity with the Sisters
Solidarity with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
Great post from Matt Bernstein on the subject of the LA Dodgers disinviting the Sisters from their Pride event after some Catholics complained.
Let’s face it, our very existence as out and proud LGBTQ2SIA people offends the Catholic Church, so I’m not sure why these events have suddenly decided to throw the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence under the bus. They do AMAZING work. I read up recently about the amount of effort and community...
