Imaginal Journal
Imagination is Medicine
Silent friend of many distances, feel by Rilke
Silent friend of many distances, feel
how your breath enlarges all of space.
Let your presence ring out like a bell
into the night.
What feeds upon your face
grows mighty from the nourishment thus offered.
Move through transformation, out and in.
What is the deepest loss that you have suffered?
If drinking is bitter, change yourself to wine.
In this immeasurable darkness, be the power
that rounds your senses in their magic ring,
the sense of their mysterious encounter.
And if the earthly no longer knows your name,
whisper to the silent earth: I'm flowing.
To the flashing water say: I am.
by Rainer Maria Rilke
English version by Stephen Mitchell
Original Language German
Cranes in the Sky by Solange
I tried to drink it away
I tried to put one in the air
I tried to dance it away
I tried to change it with my hair
I ran my credit card bill up
Thought a new dress would make it better
I tried to work it away
But that just made me even sadder
I tried to keep myself busy
I ran around in circles
Think I made myself dizzy
I slept it away, I sexed it away
I read it away
Away, away, away, away, away, away
Away, away, away, away, away
Well it's like cranes in the sky
Sometimes I don't wanna feel those metal clouds
Yeah it's like cranes in the sky
Sometimes I don't wanna feel those metal clouds
I tried to run it away
Thought then my head be feeling clearer
I traveled 70 states
Thought moving around make me feel better
I tried to let go my lover
Thought if I was alone then maybe I could recover
To write it away or cry it away (don't you cry it baby)
Away, away, away, away, away, away
Away, away, away, away, away
But it's like cranes in the sky
Sometimes I don't wanna feel those metal clouds
Yeah it's like cranes in the sky
Sometimes I don't wanna feel those metal clouds
Away, away, away, away, away, away
Away, away, away, away, away
Invisible Work
Invisible Work
Because no one could ever praise me enough,
because I don't mean these poems only
but the unseen
unbelievable effort it takes to live
the life that goes on between them,
I think all the time about invisible work.
About the young mother on Welfare
I interviewed years ago,
who said, "It's hard.
You bring him to the park,
run rings around yourself keeping him safe,
cut hot dogs into bite-sized pieces fro dinner,
and there's no one
to say what a good job you're doing,
how you were patient and loving
for the thousandth time even though you had a headache."
And I, who am used to feeling sorry for myself
because I am lonely,
when all the while,
as the Chippewa poem says, I am being carried
by great winds across the sky,
thought of the invisible work that stitches up the world day and night,
the slow, unglamorous work of healing,
the way worms in the garden
tunnel ceaselessly so the earth can breathe
and bees ransack this world into being,
while owls and poets stalk shadows,
our loneliest labors under the moon.
There are mothers
for everything, and the sea
is a mother too,
whispering and whispering to us
long after we have stopped listening.
I stopped and let myself lean
a moment, against the blue
shoulder of the air. The work
of my heart
is the work of the world's heart.
There is no other art.
by Alison Luterman
Beginnings
Jung's First Mandala. "This is the first mandala I constructed in the year 1916, wholly unconscious of what it meant." ~ Carl Jung. / Sacred Geometry
Excited to begin a new chapter in my work and be at the helm of building a budding Hakomi community in the city I love, LA. It felt incredibly aligned to start our first training on Wilshire Blvd, a road my grandfather, Ciro, helped to construct long long ago. In my soul I know my paternal line and father have been dedicated in service to this unfolding, as I am part of this first generation to experience work that is not just labor but a labor of love and offer it to this city of Angels.
Loveless by Lo Moon
Crosses in the distance bells ring fast
Loveless in our shelter time will pass
Would you take a chance on us?
Could you take a chance on us?
Call out to the lonely with regrets
Loveless is your answer time will pass
Couldn't take a chance on us
Couldn't take a chance on us
Take my hand
In belief we trace our steps
Understand
No relief in silhouettes
Battled myself so many times
What I was isn't what I want now
We can seek denial and search for miles
Blessed love the love I need
Rolling drums the loveless bleed
Take my hand
In belief we trace our steps
Understand
No relief in silhouettes