Each year the dead are numberedWe speak their names in whispers, wails, songsWe keen them to the echoing dark, leaving foodAnd drinkAnd flames to light the wayAt the crossroads and thresholds, with murmured exhortations430 souls we mourn this night430 offerings we pourMay they find their pathsMay they find their godsMay they find their ancestors open-armed … Continue reading Prayer a Day- November 20
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Prayer a Day- November 19
A prayer to Inspiration:Inspiration carries us the most remarkable of places.We taste fruits left too long on the vine, calling out for the ones who grew them;Greet stories twisted beyond all recognition, passing themselves on the street like strangers;Carry the accounting of every word we do not speak engraved like fire in our hearts.Again and … Continue reading Prayer a Day- November 19
Blackberry Market
There is food at the edgesAnd drinkYou will be welcomed hereWith a guest's gifts and obligationsThere is the safety of the haunted darkYou may trust that all you meet would eat you upYour flesh, perhaps, or dreams or vivid hungersYou will see the white shine of bone, know the smell of your visceraWhen you offer … Continue reading Blackberry Market
Prayer a Day- November 17
Little living ones, you share my space, witnessing. You speak eloquently of being rooted, of gentle bounty, of drinking in what is life giving around us.I hear you, friends, grateful for the ways your lives touch mine and your simple needs form cornerstones on which to build the small joys of home.I thank you.Image is … Continue reading Prayer a Day- November 17
Prayer a Day- November 16
I smoor this flame as my Ancestors smoored it,Flame of my hearth, Flame of my heartI smoor this flame as my Ancestors smoored it,Still, it burns within.I smoor this flame as my Ancestors smoored it,Flame in my hearth, Flame in my heartI smoor this flame as my Ancestors smoored it,As vigil reaches it’s end.Brighid, you … Continue reading Prayer a Day- November 16
Prayer a Day- November 15
A prayer to begin a Flamekeeping vigil:I light this flame as my Ancestors lit it,Flame of my hearth, Flame of my heartI light this flame as my Ancestors lit it, Brighid, I invite you in.I light this flame as my Ancestors lit it,Flame in my hearth, Flame in my heartI light this flame as my … Continue reading Prayer a Day- November 15
After Image
I have been haunted by the impression of an image (because aphantasia, etc)... In this unseen image, I am watching myself from behind as I ascend towards something, and just as I come to it I stop, stepping back and turning away. It always felt to me like falling-- falling short, falling down, falling away … Continue reading After Image
Prayer a Day- November 14
It is amazing how much “too much” and “never enough” so often entwine in our hearts… there are as many iterations of this as there are thoughts in our heads, sorrows on our shoulders, people in the world. For me, it is most often that I can never be enough to make up for all … Continue reading Prayer a Day- November 14
Prayer a Day- November 13
Today I am graniteSun warmed, stubbornly aliveHarboring strange and clinging grassesShelter to the nimbleAs the waters pour over and through meTeaching me to know my ownever-changing shapes in the worlds.I am gratefulFor the heights and depths sounding in meFor the relationships that situate my lifeFor the opportunity to nourish the lives of others.Solid, I stand.Solid, … Continue reading Prayer a Day- November 13
Prayer a Day- November 12
Peals like bells in the shadowed glens of my secret selfspeaking jubilantly of transformationand the lustrating fires of your forgeBrighid, I am gratefulfor the time between, for the quenching waters of your healing well flowing within meEven as the quiet voice of my own heartlongs for the invitation inherent in the crucibleof relationship with self, … Continue reading Prayer a Day- November 12
