by admin | Dec 16, 2020 | Capitalism, Complexity, Embodiment, Patriarchy, Perfectionism, Uncategorized
Audio version of this post by Linda Raven https://www.lindaraven.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/4-years-blog-post.m4a I stopped practicing yoga. Yoga had been a mainstay of my life for nearly 20 years. Its been hard to articulate why I stopped practicing yoga without...
by admin | Mar 5, 2019 | Authenticity, Perfectionism
The scene is a 7th-grade girls’ sleepover, circa 1985. We stay up all night giggling and playing games of interest to 13-year-old girls. One game was hypnotizing each other. One girl would lie down while another one would swing a pendant on a chain back and...
by admin | Jun 28, 2017 | Acceptance, Authenticity, change, Freedom, Gifts, Perfectionism
I felt like everyone else had a secret manual. At least the cool kids definitely had access to the manual. I know I didn’t. But I looked and listened and picked up clues as to what was in the manual. There were lots of rules regarding what to wear, what not...
by admin | Jun 27, 2017 | Acceptance, change, Perfectionism, Permaculture, Surrender
If you throw a peanut in the shell to a chicken, it will eat the shell whole, because it knows that it may get stolen if it doesn’t hurry. If you throw a peanut in a shell to a guinea hen, it will try to crack it open, and but probably get the peanut stolen by...
by admin | Apr 8, 2017 | Angola, Farming, Imperialism, learning, Patience, Perfectionism, Permaculture
After spending a few days in Luanda, we finally drove out to Uige yesterday and to the farm today! It was so exciting to get our hands in the dirt literally and feel like we were doing what I came here to do. So far, my general answer to anyone asking about what we...
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