Tag Archives: Feeling

GO GET IT!

Posted on June 21, 2016 by elainedanforth

You want it? Go get it! Or at least, check if it is on the path or at the place for which you’re headed! It may well pay quite handsomely, and to boot, be for the benefit and boost that … Continue reading →

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WRINGING OUT THE DIFFERENT DRUMMER

Posted on June 18, 2016 by elainedanforth

If you wring your hands and tense your wrists because you feel you’re doing “it” all wrong, There is a chance the thing you grapple with, for you, does not feel real, and you can choose to drop that thing, … Continue reading →

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STEPPING INTO A SEA CHANGE

Posted on June 15, 2016 by elainedanforth

Stepping onto stones to ford a stream you would not dream of crossing, stoneless, all alone. . . Bravely, then, you do proceed, although they are not firmly cobbled, and some slip, are mossy; others wobble, which makes you want … Continue reading →

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HEART BREATH

Posted on May 30, 2016 by elainedanforth

Take a breath, and open up the space between the cells that form your heart, though, to expose your soul in such a change abrupt feels like to dwell in your dark nightmare of death, Exhale, inhale. . . and … Continue reading →

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FROM THE CENTRIFUGE TO THE HORN-TOOTING JINGLE

Posted on May 25, 2016 by elainedanforth

Taking refuge in the centrifuge. To submit to be thus whirled out of center, out into the world, to mix and mingle, just as a house to maintain warmth needs both its inner hearth and outer layer of shingles. . … Continue reading →

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SUN DAY BY THE WATER

Posted on May 23, 2016 by elainedanforth

Shush! Soft wind slaps a langour on blue, slow-mo ripples in the island harbor. As this May sun day stretches longer, I bike, therefore I am, in my long-held pedal-cycling stand, I tweak my leg, while I dare let go … Continue reading →

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FREED THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE

Posted on May 17, 2016 by elainedanforth

Free yourself– peel gently off the climbing, winding vines that bind. . . And breathe into the icky-sticky tracks where wickedly invading tendrils used to grip and cling, to suck the life it strangled tight, right through your resisting skin, … Continue reading →

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YOUR HEAL OF APPROVAL

Posted on May 4, 2016 by elainedanforth

What helps with pain and calms the fray +++++that led to ills, and helps you truly heal can alone be indubitably be known by your deep considering well, from which springs forth your personal approval seal, when you see how … Continue reading →

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WHEN SOMEONE BELIEVES IN YOU

Posted on April 21, 2016 by elainedanforth

It can feel so good when someone believes in you. Even if it’s just because they’re a good human being, who believes in human beings, and they choose to treat you like a human being. Sometimes that is all it … Continue reading →

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I DO MATTER

Posted on April 1, 2016 by elainedanforth

Sometimes I must remind myself that I do matter. Although my seeming unfree mind, chains my very deepest power on some high shelf, and ticks its well worn tocks that drum right through the creaky chimes of my inner antique … Continue reading →

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