by Havi Brooks | Oct 17, 2011 | stuff I think about
Today’s post is a woem I wrote a week or so ago. A woem is a poem of woe! And grumbles. This is something we invented at McGrumblebug’s Whine Bar (a forum board disguised as a pub) in my Kitchen Table program. See: My weekend got eaten by bears! And, as it...
by Havi Brooks | Mar 29, 2011 | my personal practice
I have a sadness story. It’s a story that lives inside of my consciousness, and it’s all about how everything ends in tears and regret. This story is so familiar that sometimes I think it is me. When I pull away from it so we can see each other, I...
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 | Jan 4, 2009 | my personal practice, stuff I think about
Friday afternoon I was getting poked full of delicious needles by my wonderful, witchy acupuncturist. And between the resulting blissfully doped-out state and a brain-scramblingly fantastic Shiva Nata practice a bit earlier to shake up some old, stuck patterns …...
by Havi Brooks | Jun 17, 2008 | my personal practice, stuff I think about, working on patterns & habits
A point is coming, but first a story A story served with wackiness. Because, believe me, I am no stranger to the ways of wacky. So, this is not at all the point, but last night I went to a yoga nidra class here in Portland. And I’m still recovering. Not my...
