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Joy Abandoned
Taken from a FB Q & A yesterday: Joy left in November and only shows her face briefly. Holding it together doesn’t seem to allow for joy....
Ingrid Oliphant
Jun 23, 20171 min read
Saying What?
It’s been nearly two years since I first heard my Beloved crew collective shout “SPEAK” to me. As I watched coverage of the Charleston...
Ingrid Oliphant
Jun 8, 20173 min read
Speaking Silence
The waters wend their way around me, Wrapping around my legs with a ‘shhhhhh…. Speak.’ Snake and otter stand on end, Hood open and head...
Ingrid Oliphant
Jun 2, 20171 min read
Wind watching
When you watch the wind breathe What do you see?
Ingrid Oliphant
Jun 1, 20171 min read
Hiding Places
Tucked away beyond the reach. Reaching out to give succor and safety. Only momentarily, though. We were always found. Now, we need to be...
Ingrid Oliphant
May 23, 20171 min read
How a Non-Deist Dances (or does the dishes) with God
When I was in the sixth grade, I saw an angel. At least, that’s what I called it. It was in the sky, it was alive, and not a bird or a...
Ingrid Oliphant
May 22, 20173 min read
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy and Merci on Me
Mercy. noun 1.compassion or forgiveness shown toward someone whom it is within one’s power to punish or harm. or: a blessing that is an...
Ingrid Oliphant
May 9, 20171 min read
It Really is All About You
Until it’s not More on Empath myth busting Always we want to learn from outside, from absorbing other people’s knowledge. It’s safer that...
Ingrid Oliphant
Apr 30, 20171 min read


Heavens Below
The heavenly aren’t confined to the stars. We forget, even in our ideals of One, the glory of the mud to build our lives; light brought...
Ingrid Oliphant
Apr 28, 20171 min read


Love knows no barriers
And, love, like fear, isn’t just floating through the ether waiting for you. To make a decision or choose to be enough of something other...
Ingrid Oliphant
Apr 27, 20171 min read


Gnarly Dance
tangled up in the hair and roots get twisted across the toes, grace just isn’t there There is a fine line between a twist and shout and a...
Ingrid Oliphant
Apr 26, 20171 min read


How You Move Me
This skin-bound mold of human, thisness, this being Continues to be shaped, poured into by the powers that be. Being hidebound can’t...
Ingrid Oliphant
Apr 21, 20171 min read


The Occupied Woman
Legions live within the boundaries of her skin. Joined not at the hip but breath in breath they are, they walk, they weave. The Old Ones...
Ingrid Oliphant
Mar 28, 20171 min read


As the Crow Flies
As the crow flies means something different when his wings span time and space. It’s not the shortest route but the farthest reaching,...
Ingrid Oliphant
Mar 14, 20171 min read
Before and Again
Before there was, I was. And again, I am; the ceaseless answer to the call and prayer, “Hear us, oh Lord.” I am the light; a lumined...
Ingrid Oliphant
Mar 13, 20171 min read
Weavers
Spider swings Crow brings Grandmothers tie The strings that remind us we are bound together Breath to Breath We weave.
Ingrid Oliphant
Mar 6, 20171 min read
Seamless
Senses seamlessly Opening into union Peace not passing but Lingering to be shared Breath to Breath between Thee and We Between thee and...
Ingrid Oliphant
Mar 5, 20171 min read


Longings Laid Bare
The need to be laid bare is palpable. To be fully naked, exposed and disposed of all secrets, a tabula rasa erased of all gibberish that...
Ingrid Oliphant
Mar 2, 20171 min read


Feeling the Pain is not Failure to Thrive
The avoidance is There is a new, perhaps renewed, ‘depth’ of raw feeling within many and a deep desire to express it. As if, the...
Ingrid Oliphant
Mar 1, 20171 min read


The Fluidity of It All
You are part of the fluidity of all things just as oxygen is of you. Inner and outer are not a breath apart or away from each other. They...
Ingrid Oliphant
Feb 28, 20171 min read

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