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Fallen

October 24, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Fallen I am wounded  I am weak  I am not alone. Scooped up Made warm and welcome Earth dug deep with candles lit Your love nourishes me. Gracious nestling In your family’s home,  your heart, your lives, your land. Just now this way  I am safe  I can crow  I am made stronger  in your […]

So Many Passions

August 27, 2014 · Leave a Comment

What does Passion mean to you? For the first half of my life I thought Passion was that feeling derived from sex and love. BTW this is also the time I thought sex & love were the same thing.  Passion was that fleeting thing that waxed and waned according to life’s circumstance. It conjured up images […]

A Healing Effect

August 16, 2014 · Leave a Comment

“For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.”  ~ thich nhat hahn Describing a feeling is never easy unless I have an acute sense of it’s components. I have been living under an umbrella of grief for 23 months now so I can describe that […]

Perfectly Imperfect!!

July 20, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Yes – it feels good to see how life is unfolding warts and all; to generate appreciation for a stubbed toe or a missed class. There are six pots in my second story window box and one is not getting water due to an out-of-joint drip line. So a little dry brown sprig of dead Asparagus […]

The Joy of Obstinance

May 28, 2014 · Leave a Comment

No! I don’t want to! No! I will not! These are the things I say to myself when I am feeling completely obstinate. It is a feeling of standing still and strongly opposing that which is said to be important or otherwise necessary. Well I do not care what they say, I am not going […]

Manifesting: the process revealed

May 7, 2014 · Leave a Comment

“We need not always be effective, but only transparent and vulnerable. Then we are instruments, no matter what we do.” ~ richard rohr I have been gandering at this transition from grieving to gratitud-ing I am making. This is what I have come up with so far. With no anecdote here that will ground this […]

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Lani received a B.F.A from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1986 and earned a B.A in Art Education from NCCU in 2000.
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