Comments on: Escape Velocity

By: Sohbet – Fallowed Field – Valerie Roney

Sohbet – Fallowed Field – Valerie Roney — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:03:55 +0000

[...] In the spirit of continuing the poetry sharing that’s been going on here, I’ll contribute a section of a song lyric by Luba Kowalchyk, that I think is appropriate to your “Escape Velocity“: [...]

By: Valerie

Valerie — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:42:54 +0000

Hey! I found a flow chart that completely describes the process I’ve been going through. Check it out: http://xkcd.com/627/

Guess that makes me a computer expert, who knew…

By: Valerie

Valerie — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:48:10 +0000

Crikey!!! No wonder Alfred Hitchcock made a horror movie about birds. My own little pet has been quite a squawker as of late. Mostly I just say: “fuckit, I’m doing it anyway” and carry on.

By: Donna

Donna — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:57:19 +0000

We have a great enemy that creates great fear, infuses us with the toxin of not believing in ourselves, paralyzes us to stay in living the mundane and most dangerous, kills our dreams. That great enemy is the judge that is ourselves. I have a friend who shared a story with me about “the Judge”. “The Judge” sits on our shoulder like a pet bird of prey. It will watch. It will scream. It will peck and tear and use those talons to shred us to pieces. The pain can reach to the deepest part of our souls. As we listen to the criticism pecking at our tender hearts and we believe it, we feed “the judge” and it grows to enormous proportions. We not only become sick from the poison that spews from its mouth, but are burdened by its weight. But if we let the comments fall off our shoulders and don’t let any crumbs of it stay on us, we starve “the Judge” and it will eventually shrink away to nothing.

We can be our own worst enemy but we can also be our own best friend and save us from ourselves. The key is to stay open and in love with ourselves and spread that love big time.

So keep on finding those little cracks to plant your seeds. Find those loose threads and pull them to find out where they go. It’s the only way that Theseus found his way out of the cretan maze to freedom from the hungry Minotaur. You, Valerie are doing such important work. Thank you for sharing it with us.