by Havi Brooks | May 4, 2017 | my personal practice
Content note! Aka a loving reminder to read this with a steady force field… This post deals in part with neurodivergence and unique brains, and I have found that this topic is a People Vary thing — some people find diagnoses comforting and useful...
by Havi Brooks | Apr 26, 2017 | my personal practice
So many / how many There are so many things I want to say here, too many, so many that I can’t possibly say them or name them, but: is this true? What if we made an opening in time a space in which to whisper and shout, to name whatever wishes wish be named, for...
by Havi Brooks | Apr 13, 2017 | my personal practice
April. I left Utah for California the morning of April 1st, driving from St George to Los Angeles, thank you, month of Serendipity. Though of course when past-me named this month, she did not know it would coincide perfectly with a two week unplanned road trip, but...
by Havi Brooks | Mar 22, 2017 | my personal practice
Back in eighth grade, a kid in my class set the school on fire because that was how you expressed helpless rage in the 80s, with fire. It seems old fashioned now, another time, before school shootings even existed in our collective consciousness, before they became...
by Havi Brooks | Mar 6, 2017 | my personal practice
Discernment The night March came in, I found myself suddenly awake, a voice in my ear: {DISCERNMENT} There was no doubt that this was an instruction in addition to all the other things it could be; a suggestion, an approach, a clue, a puzzle piece, a quality of...
by Havi Brooks | Feb 28, 2017 | my personal practice
February is both the shortest and longest month, it always seems (for me, at least) as though it will never end and then suddenly it is gone. Let’s reflect. Which is extra appropriate, since this was the month of Reflection and Reflecting. I’m feeling...