There is one extreme of this spectrum. The Ascetic, with their abstenance of sensual pleasure, frugality, hours of stillness, their simple food with no spice, observing the world to get to know it, walking and breathing slow and connected, always noticing……… and then they sleep with their students and disciples or steal the money.…
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AMANDA PALMER AND REB FOUNTAIN
It is a stunning day where I live today. Not a day to want to bum people out at all with some hard core current reality. But what is on my mind if you want to read along…….. I am feeling alot of grief running through my body this morning. There are stories many…
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Women know that socially we are under threat just by walking in the park or the extra stretch of beach. Single mothers can have a very specific threat and lack of safety against themselves and against thier children. Often they are in hostile terrain and they are marginalised because of the implicit bias of society…
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On the 1/9/2010 The removalists came and moved my stuff to a little cottage on an acreage farm complete with dogs, cats and a horse. It was the first day of the rest of my life and I knew it in my bones. I was both excited and terrified with two small children in the mix,…
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Women are accused lovingly or otherwise of talking too much. But I completely disagree I don’t think women talk enough. We don’t talk enough about the sticky bits, the hard parts, the shamed and taboo topics. Women don’t have enough conversations about…. Our reproductive choices and…
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May you know that whatever your personal choices:- Sexual preferences and pleasures, child rearing values, choosing to not have children at all, if you are a cat or a dog person, where you are at in your money journey, if you drop out of uni, are a high flying / low lying self starter, on…
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“ Intuition is not to be consulted once and then forgotten. It is not disposable. It is to be consulted at all steps along the way, whether the woman’s work be clashing with a demon in the interior, or completing a task in the outer world. It does not matter whether a woman’s concerns and…
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Over the years through my own experience, being with other mothers, observations of the social structure of motherhood and joining the dots through education, I have become entirely suspicious of the concept and construct of Motherhood. I consider it a MOTHERHOOD INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX with the sole purpose to perpetuate the moralised suppression of women as…
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Did you see the Red Table Talk on Polyamory? I love that this topic is being discussed more openly. ********* What I love about the WHOLE conversation about relationship dynamics, shapes and agreements is that whatever individuals choose for themselves and with one another creates such a more authentic relating space. Your relationship does not…
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