by Havi Brooks | Jan 8, 2021 | my personal practice
Renewed I had a flash of a desire during my morning tête-à-tête with Incoming Me, something about renewing a ritual. Tête-à-tête is my secret name for the time I take to sit and commune with Incoming Me for twelve minutes, some people refer to this contemplative...
by Havi Brooks | Dec 9, 2020 | my personal practice
Image: Saguaro National Forest (please admire my enormous spiky friends, I like to imagine that they are gathering round for story hour and hugs!) (Burn before reading) This piece of writing feels so raw, unprotected. Maybe because it comes from the heart and is...
by Havi Brooks | Sep 18, 2020 | my personal practice
Image: a pale red-pink long rug where I do my morning stretching in the sun, you can imagine (I do) it is a dragon tongue, I dance from the flames… pre- This is the longest and possibly most intimate piece I’ve ever shared online, long even for me, a winding...
by Havi Brooks | Aug 17, 2020 | my personal practice
Image: an especially friendly tall saguaro points towards the path while presenting you with a bouquet of flowers (for perspective, the flowers are at the height of a tall person’s head!) Rescue mission I took the above photograph (with my phone) on a day of intense...
by Havi Brooks | Apr 22, 2020 | my personal practice
No answers, only questions Fair warning that this piece answers neither of the questions posed in the title, so hope you aren’t looking for wisdom on that front, haha or on any front really because I don’t know if I have any insights for us today. This piece also...
by Havi Brooks | Apr 2, 2020 | my personal practice
This is Anna’s favorite tree, and also the tree where one of my hawk friends lives. When we can’t write I was writing about something intense and personal, and then something in me tightened, and I couldn’t write anymore, about anything, at all. Luckily for us, I...