Treacherous Teachers - Turtles and All
/Who is invited and who is not.
He cornered me in the bathroom and tore the wet bathing suit from my skin. The choice to avoid the word “body” here is deliberate. Few choices are available these days. Lakes can be a treacherous place, turtles and all.
The author wrote, “the art of crises” and I knew exactly where she was headed and where she had been. The feminine understands how the earth is fractured, and she also knows how the trails of life require attention with love. We tend broken waters. We speak on behalf of the Mother.
No longer need we look for god's footsteps in sand or elsewhere. Just have a conversation – with the water, with land – she speaks. Watch the spider weave the world into being. Take a breath and look in all directions.
Disrobe in the rain.
What is tattooed on the inside of your skin?
Make no more mistakes: it would arise out of my own power if I chose to kneel before you.
Another storm overnight; another blessing of rain for the withering.
Indra's Net, indeed.
As long is there is light, there is love.
I’m only sorry that it took my so long to know.