One Step Up, Two Steps Down: A Semi-Poetic Response to Nonlinear Spiritual Development
Resistant to the call, disdainful and intolerant of embarking on such a path, spirituality arrived like a sledgehammer.
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"I write to discover what I know."
– Flannery O'Connor
Jacqueline
- Mar 11, 2021
- 6 min
Six Ways to Ground Yourself
Grounding doesn't have to be a lengthy process. The important thing is to make it work for you. Here are six techniques for you to try.
Jacqueline
- Sep 2, 2020
- 1 min
The Manse on the Hill (Weeping for Home)
Despair shifts like the tide,
and I am pulled down once again by an undertow of history.
Jacqueline
- Jan 2, 2018
- 1 min
Never Let You Down
Do you remember all the sounds, when I found you by the lake, and how the water seemed to call your name?
Jacqueline
- Sep 6, 2017
- 1 min
A Valkyrie’s Love Poem for the Trees
They have destroyed your
beauty, your canopy that once enfolded me into
your splendor.
Jacqueline
- Jul 12, 2017
- 4 min
Ewiger Wald: The Roots of Ecofascism and My Love for the Real Eternal Forest
Given Germany’s deeply rooted connection to the woods, I had always assumed that its forests were robust and covered much of the country.
Jacqueline
- Jun 1, 2017
- 3 min
Drumpf Pronounces Death to the Earth
The fate of our planet has just been decided.
Jacqueline
- Nov 16, 2008
- 1 min
Lake Champlain in November
It’s nearly 12pm, windy and with a charcoal gray sky. The trees are bare, exposing large nests that had been carefully constructed...
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