By Bonnie Tarantino When our eldest daughter left for College Park at University of Maryland, we packed up the car, left her two younger siblings at home, drove 45 minutes, pulled up to a busy curb and unloaded her stuff into three huge laundry-type rolling bins. A few upperclassmen joined in, helping to direct and […]
Read More...The Sun XIX I am sunned. When people see me, they have to say it. “Wow, you are tan!” And I am. Although I always stay under the umbrella at the beach and always use 50 sunscreen, I am outside as much as I can in good weather, walking Walter, pulling weeds, and even running […]
Read More...When the moon is full, and the fullness of our tide is pulled deep into her body, the shore is left for us to explore in clear light. What will you find that you discarded off the side of the moving vessel of your heart and mind? What did you hope the sea would swallow […]
Read More...The Star XVII One of my favorite myths is the myth of Inanna. Inanna is the Sumerian Goddess of love beauty, sex, fertility and love. She represents the deep transformation that women go through as they move through the stages of maiden, mother, queen, crone. The story most often told of Inanna is her descent […]
Read More...The Tower While in Iceland, for several nights at 3:30 in the morning, I woke to a cold sheering thought. “Why did we all walk so close to the edge of those cliffs?” Let me be clear. I love heights. I love jumping off high things and feeling the free fall. I love skyscrapers and […]
Read More...On my first day back from Iceland, I was greeted by the perfect 83-degree summer day with a gentle wind that demanded to open windows and doors. In contrast, the hottest day ever recorded in Iceland was in 1939, and it went all the way up to 86 degrees. In the summer, a hot day […]
Read More...The Devil The darkest energy I have ever encountered came upon me when I was 13 and with fever. There it sat on my chest, stealing my breath, paralyzing my lungs as I tried with bulging eyes to call out for help. I could not scream, move, nor react but instead felt the sheer terror […]
Read More...Alchemy – Temperance By Bonnie Tarantino When I was young, my parents were involved in what was called the Pentecostal movement or “The Jesus Movement” in the catholic church. The main message of this movement was Love and Peace and they challenged any aspect of the church that focused on sin and damnation or the […]
Read More...We die little deaths every day. In fact, every second, over a million cells in your body die. Luckily, in contrast, 3.8 million cells reproduce in your body at the second your cells die. This week our archetype is death and as it turns out I experienced my own small death this past week. Last […]
Read More...Hangman Essay I didn’t’ do it. I just pulled back and said no and let it go and didn’t show up. And you are allowed to do that. Sometimes you must. Even if it means disappointed others. You just pull back and focus on what you need to dco to recalibrate and rebalance. Let the […]
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