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“Why wait until you’re sick? Play the cancer card. Live right now.”
Tag Archives: Living
Reason for Living
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Why live? Why not just be formless energy? Why have bodies, this pain and illness – What is the point of the suffering? Continue reading
Leap Day
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I’ve been asked, What will you do with the wee extra bit of time granted – this extra day ? What I know is that the dishes still need to be done, the mortgage paid, the dog walked, the … Continue reading
Letter to My Garden by Erica Sternin
Zucchini leaf
This morning, mildew powders the zucchini leaves
and crows fly the obsidian highway.
Savoring my first dark coffee,
I long to plunge my fingers
Break Up Letter
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Dear Life: Yeah, I can’t quite leave you, can I? I tried, but It’s sort of a “love/hate” relationship we have, Isn’t it? I just wanted to do things my own way. Just wanted what I wanted, but you had … Continue reading
Second Chance
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Kurt Bauschardt
My cat opens her sinewy jaws and releases a still-living chickadee into the rafters of my home. A day like any day, flitting about, white wing tips flick-flick-flicking, “tit tit” calls amongst the flock – until BAM! Fetid carnivorous fangs closed on her neck. Continue reading
Dreaming Into Life
Photo credit: Ratha Grimes
In the morning I sit cross legged with my coffee. In the rain, or the dark, or the ethereal dawn – inhaling the staggering scent of lilies. My counselor said, “watch the places where you go UnConsious,” and my own mind filled in the rest, “because that’s what’s killing you.” Continue reading
Dances with Death – SoulCollage ®
Dances with Death
I Am One who dances with death, unafraid. I am in Joy with my faithful companion, who is at my side ever day of my life. We are best friends enjoying the sprinklers and waterfalls of life. I am one who enJoys my life. This card’s gift to me is fearlessness. My gift to the card is Joy.
UPDATE: A fellow SoulCollager, Aimee Shaw, recently wrote an article, Why We Need a Memento Mori card, that speaks to the card I made, and I wanted to share here.
What is Yet Uncovered by Erica Sternin
Photo Credit: Lindsay Shaver
What is yet uncovered
Are the surging tides,
The drumbeat youdonemewrong,
The throbbing hooves of blue horses
Corralled beneath my skin.
Take it. Or leave it.
What is yet uncovered
Is the pointless wrung out laundry,
The twisted bitterness of alum.
This too is life.
Shape Shifting
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I stood on the edge of the cliff, knowing that to continue my journey, to fulfill my life’s purpose, I had to step onto the tightrope stretched across the chasm to the far side.
And I could not move.
For four years I teetered on the brink, paralyzed, face to the wind, tears running down my cheeks, KNOWING that I could not walk that tightrope. Continue reading
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