by Havi Brooks | Oct 7, 2014 | my personal practice
Content note: This post references suicide and a car accident. Grounded presence is recommended. ♡ The superpower of pre-emptive hugs. I want to say something, except I don’t know what exactly, about two particularly uncanny and fortuitous hugs. Late...
by Havi Brooks | Jun 14, 2010 | stuff I think about
Hiro wrote this beautiful, captivating piece last week called Tsunamis in the House of Wholeness. And while I was reading, something began tugging at my sleeve of my memory. At first a vague pulling sensation. Resistance. Where? There. She said December. She said the...
by Havi Brooks | Apr 11, 2010 | my personal practice
I said goodbye to some things over the past few days, and it has been less than fun. And I’ve been thinking about loss in various permutations. The loss of something that can’t come back. Someone asked me this week what I did when my friend died. And I...
by Havi Brooks | Oct 6, 2008 | my personal practice
First is always the experience itself … On Saturday I saw a cat get hit by a car and die. Awful. Horrible. I was walking home from hanging out with friends. Not really paying attention to anything. And it happened so quickly — and so agonizingly slowly...
by Havi Brooks | Jul 15, 2008 | my personal practice
Okay, I was all set not to depress you anymore with more talk of how miserable I’ve been feeling the past few days, but it occurred to me that this might actually be useful. Sooooo. If you’d like a peek into my head right now, here are a few, oh,...
