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My Bloodlines Story
Great Uncle Ben drove his shiny Cadillac all the way from El Paso to Montreal. He brought his new camera to take pictures of our family. Nana says he’s a hero but he doesn’t look like one – he’s kind...
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The Heart Cannot Speak
“And this is one of the mysteries, that the mind can speak, and knows nothing, and the heart knows everything, and cannot speak.” Osho There is short video of a few moments of an installation entitled,...
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Touched – an excerpt from the memoir
In 2012, I took a year-long course, A Novel Approach to Memoir, with Sue Reynolds. My ambition was to write about the winters I spent in India taking trainings in various healing modalities. The...
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Lover or mechanic?
Last week I posted the first part of the first day of Rebalancing training in Pune India, 1988. Here is a continuation of that first day. Amrita stands facing the group with her eyes closed, arms loose...
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Dancing in the Summer
Last night I danced in the summer with a handful of women and one brave man. The music was good, the energy light and uncomplicated. I danced into, through, for and by myself for the first long while,...
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The first massage from “Touched”
Here is another piece from Touched, a narrative non-fiction story about learning the art of Osho Rebalancing in Pune, India. The blue Nivea bottle is slick and warm. Just a drop, said Komala,...
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A Student of Bodies – a Rebalancer’s poem
Today, in Sue Reynold’s divine Sanctuary Sunday – a full day to dive deep into words, to come at ideas, images, and stories in fresh ways – she offered up as a prompt Thomas R. Smith’s poem, Baby...
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By any other name
My mother once huffed, “We gave you a perfectly good name.” She was right, they did. I have always thought the name Susan, means “Star,” but when I look up its etymology, I find that it comes from the...
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What not to say to authors (and what to say instead)
Deepam (Susan) Wadds:In this post about the realities of being a published author, there are some lovely suggestions for what to say to said author. Originally posted on AUTHOR ALLSORTS: NOTE: I LOVE...
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