"Osun is the Yoruba understanding of the cosmological forces of water, moisture, and attraction. Her power is represented in another Yoruba scripture which reminds us that "no one is an enemy to water" and therefore everyone has need of and should respect and revere Osun, as well as her followers. She is also known as Laketi, she who has ears, because of how quickly and effectively she answers prayers.

When she possesses her followers she dances, flirts and then weeps- because no one can l... read more

there is work to be done in the fallen maple leaves. in the basements and the caverns and the hiddens and the hollows. time has changed for us and here we are allowing, swallowing every mouthful of a day's captivation and delay. the work will feel like burning and falling in the wilderness of your choosing. and the minutes will only get stickier whether we brace ourselves against or let go into all the chaos of the autumn circle spin. let's go down. to do the work under the leaves and in the ... read more

I sense that I know something of what you said of senses. "From this peak other peaks come into focus and I feel the swing and pattern of history." Related or not, my heart is exposed in a way it's never been. And I fear the inevitability of it building and developing yet another way out of view. Because inside all my talk of love, there is love so deep it terrifies me out of speech. It paints a world of grey and fear and forgetfulness, to mask its beauty from me. It wants to save me from the... read more