Tag: #lovingkindness
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Thinking about human potential
As the world becomes difficult, soften. As people become desperate, stay strong. Your potential is fulfilled or neglected in every choice you make. ~Simone B’Free
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Divide and conquer
Processing family patterns is essential to identity work…The past is a story, the future is ours to craft. Simone B’Free.
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I am not what I was.
I hope the next leg of my journey is a useful story to share. What do I do with this person I’ve become? Existentialism is a way, but the destination is very unclear…
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Patterns of transition – part 2
The journey I, my self, am on. It is spiritual, not professional. This is the pull of the #greatresignation. This is the wake up call so many now heed.
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Allowing for emergence and embracing one’s own complexity
Something I have observed about my experience of sovereignty is that the feeling of it comes and goes.
As if my conditioning were a landslide of mud and debris, I become entangled and triggered, scrabbling and alert, lashing out and fighting back at everything coming in my direction.
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Embrace
The freedom of authenticity, of stepping into your true self, comes from embracing the paradox of being both courageous and vulnerable.
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Album #2 – Transcending
“In these moments of deep reflection, I started to make sense of my self, for myself. ” This album reflects the realization that I could use my body to express myself through images, and that nudity enhanced or expanded what i could say…
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The Photographic Journey to here
“To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself” ~ Simone de Beauvoir. I started looking for myself in places where I knew I’d seen me before. I thought perhaps there would be clues left behind, or perhaps I’d get lucky and find I was still there. In yoga. I saw my shape, my body, the crafting of age telling a story of it’s own. In the garden I saw the crone, smiling as she welcomed me home. The witch standing close behind, ever sultry and full of sass…
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Being shot by an other
The next set of photos I share (next post) will be those I very first shared online with a community of naturists (and some others…). As I share the various albums I have created for this project, I will toggle back and forth between reflection on now and then. I will share where I was at in my journey when the photo was taken, what I saw in the image at the time, and if anything has changed. As well, I will check in regularly with a mindful pause, an update of where things are at with the project real time and a few new pics as the opportunities to collaborate with more experienced artists emerge and unf
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In love’s shadow, anger is a powerful ally
Knowing our self is believed by many to be the path to freedom. So how do we come to know our true self? I stumbled across a means for doing so combining yoga, Buddhism, philosophy, nudism, photography, poetry and prose, and, the secret ingredient, play.