Shakura Healing Center

12/02/2022

Whispering wind in my ear

12/02/2022

12/02/2022

December walking in the woods

08/24/2020

I am working with this right now as I struggle with my recent project-perfect timing to hear these words again.

Borges – one of humanity's greatest writers, born on this day in 1899 to live through two World Wars, a great deal of personal loss, and the loss of his very eyes – on turning our hardships into raw material for creativity: https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/10/08/borges-trauma-art/

08/09/2020

Morning meditation...

“In much of your talking, thinking is half murdered. For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.”

08/09/2020

Time to change the world...

One of the great seers on love, despair, and our capacity for change: https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/10/24/anne-lamott-almost-everything/

08/02/2020

Hold one another...

Remembering Baldwin, born on this day in 1924, with his elegy to keeping the light alive amid the darkness of being, set to music: https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/05/21/nothing-is-fixed-james-baldwin-morley-music/

06/19/2020

Emancipation, proclamation, transformation...

Juneteenth with James Baldwin – read his most revealing, immensely insightful and timely interview, given in 1963: https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/05/24/james-baldwin-life-magazine-1963/

06/17/2020

We are alive!

Dostoyevsky, just after his death sentence was repealed, on the meaning of life – read his moving letter to his brother: https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/12/05/dostoyevsky-execution-life/

12/10/2019

Give yourself the gift of inner peace and nurturing the deepest part of your self. spend an hour being still, receiving a healing treatment of acupuncture and restoring your balance.

08/17/2019

My heart is wise...

02/07/2019

With new films from major auteurs like Agnès Varda and Fatih Akin, the 69th Berlinale could set the stage for a strong year of world cinema.