Lyric prose meditations that play with elements from evangelical Christianity, Buddhism, yoga, reiki, Tarot and “weird voodoo shit.

~by Cindy Clem

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Opening exercise:  Close your eyes. You are on a raft on a dark lake, floating. Breathe slowly until the water stills around you. Let your hand submerge, water rivering through your fingers. Float, breathe.

Feel your fingers touch what feels like fingers, what slides up your palm to become a hand, clutching. Clutch back. Pull hard, pull for your life, until it breaks the surface, dripping. Breathe. Calm your beating heart. The hand moves, wants to touch you. Do with it what you wish. It is yours now, and you are safer than you were.

Today’s passage:

There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.  Genesis 6:4, NKJV Continue reading →