Author Archives: Catherine Holland
Bear holding the bouquet of Lotus-dendron is an essential identity. This Inspired Self resists being contained in language. It’s not a behavior, not an activity, not a habit, not a job or even a career, not a role or an obligation or an expectation and insight. Putting labels or even words to it is a […]
Love Today fox is awakened into the spirit of care, which grows tendrils everywhere and has eventual blooms of sacred devotion. Fox’s intuition is that Love is the creative view that encompasses and integrates the world. Play Today fox is awakened into Play, an elemental energy, the urge to cavort, to not be so damn […]
There are times I think it might be preferable to be a machine, a robot, an android. Such beings (or non-beings) are able to evaluate at length what appears to be in front of them, set an agenda that will be followed unvaryingly. They stay narrowly focused on things, as long as their intellect deems […]
Work Bears have done their own Work which is separate yet intertwined with relational Work. They have learned to compassionately hold their own pain and self-deception. And, so, in the dance of any one day, they are less dependent on practiced steps, less reliant on other bears. Power Awakened from slumber, bears are living in […]
Power The bears ascend with their heartbeats embodied in Nature. They give themselves to the Beauty all around and rise above into something greater, though–wise bears–they don’t generally try to put this into words. Play The past trails off into the infinite unknown. The future trails off into an equally infinite unknown. But the bears […]