From Pepper Tree Retreat

My friends, I am lucky enough to have spent another 36 hours here in Ojai --writing. I feel a rather profound internal shift occurring that doesn’t yet have many words. I know how important it is for me to have this time of silence and Self. I’m going to make a commitment to have this time at least once every 6 weeks. Everyone will benefit — my children, my husband, myself.

I feel a cracking open that has been long in the making. And it feels a little terrifying because it really feels new. There is nothing external now in my life that reflects it. But it is everywhere inside me.

Here is a poem I just wrote yesterday.  Big love to all.

Home

When it was done
When words were spoken that cannot be unsaid
The silence kissed my eyes and mouth
and whispered into the cave of my heart.

All my life
I heard the joyous music
in a village just around the bend.
And though the music was
wild and free and insistent
And though my heart
stirred from the strains I could dimly hear,
I never chose to go.

There was work to be done
after all.

But
After
All
when there was nothing left to do
but walk
in the last blazes of the sun
from all that was familiar

I opened my eyes
freshly kissed
and in wordless wonder
followed this beckoning ceaseless beauty
Home.