Keeping it Real...

Keeping it Real with the lovely

Monica over at Ink and Chai

Every Friday 

Monica invites her readers to

"Share your own ups-downs, lows-highs, hits-misses, dark-light,
peaks-valleys, plus-minuses,
as we keep the blogosphere real."

The Ebb:


~embracing Mother Death with in myself
meaning:
when I let my expectations die I allow new life to grow
~stumbling over the jagged rubble of Mother Hood
~pushing myself through yet another birth canal
~surrendering to the ugliness that lies within
~dying to self


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(mamma Robin sitting on her eggs behind our shed)


The Flow:


~Embracing Mother Death within myself

meaning:

when I let my expectations die I allow new life to grow

~stumbling over the jagged rubble of Mother Hood and
getting to the other side

~coming out of yet another birth canal

(these ducklings are less than 12 hours old, watching them in our "church")

~embracing the ugliness that lies within

so I can see the beauty that lies beyond

~living free

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(Papa bringing food for Mama and babies in our back yard)

(all images taken this past week)

This week had been full of death

which turned onto life

revealing to me

the Power of

letting go

~This is our meditation practice as women, calling back the dead and dismembered aspects of ourselves, calling back the dead and dismembered aspects of life itself. The one who re-creates from that which has died is always a double sided archetype. the Creation Mother is always also the Death Mother and vice versa. Because of this dual nature, or double-tasking, the great work before us is to learn to understand what around and about us and what within us must live, and what must die.

Our work is to apprehend the timing of both

to allow what must die to die

and what must live to live."

"Women Who Run With the Wolves"

by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D.

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embracing you today, my lovelies

thank you for being here

Love and Light

(linking up with Monica @ Ink and Chia here)