It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.

The second thing I wrote down that day was that exclusive male imagery of the Divine not only instilled an imbalance within human consciousness, it legitimized patriarchal power in the culture at large. Here alone is enough reason to recover the Divine Feminine, for there is a real and undeniable connection between the repression of the feminine in our deity and the repression of women.

the feminine journey is a story unfolding, and its epiphanies come through real things, through tangibles like walking sticks and dreams and deer antlers--all of which we might miss without taking time and space in Deep Being.

It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.

This is what I know about myself. She was all I wanted. And I took her away.

We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night.

There is no place so awake and alive as the edge of becoming. But more than that, birthing the kind of woman who can authentically say, 'My soul is my own,' and then embody it in her life, her spirituality, and her community is worth the risk and hardship.