My Love
Spending time
with you
is the softness
of forest moss,
the warm embrace
of humid air.
A familiar comfort
that soothes
the soul.
You are my forest… away from the forest.
writing exercise
Gideon’s Challenge
The Wrinkle
Like a crease
on the soul
a surface
that seems smooth
until you look close
and really
pay attention.
My soul clenches,
tightening
in its vulnerability…
Back up.
Subdrop sucks. Just sayin’. Thank you so much for being there with me and helping me through it. I know I’m not easy to be around in close quarters when feeling raw and vulnerable. I can pretend I’m fine for most… but when you get too close the view changes drastically. You manage to always see me at my worst and love me despite the wrinkles in my soul in these moments.
Photo © ZenStatePhotography
Weekly Creativity Prompt – A Dream
Pull (at least) three cards use them as the foundation to write about one of your dreams (either literal or aspirational).
In the dream I awake in the ditch beside an abandoned street (High Priestess). It’s night time and chilly but not cold. There is a slope on one side of me and the street on the other and as I rise I find friends arguing with each other a short distance away (Justice beneath Strength).
They are arguing about going to a haunted house, and as they start to climb the hill, I can see the house in the distance at the top. In order to get there, we have to take a zigzagging route with some wooden ramps and bridges made of wood that cross over deep cracks in the ground. (The Tower).
When we reach the house, there is a party going on inside, but each time you go through a doorway, you end up in an entirely different part of the house. I go through the doorway from the kitchen to the living room, and end up in the attic. (Wheel of Fortune)
I get creeped out by the behavior of the party goers, which seems to be becoming more and more malicious the longer we stay. None of my friends want to leave, so I decide to take off on my own. (The Chariot)
Getting down the hill and through all the different ramps and bridges, over the rocks and boulders, all seems much more difficult as I try to get back to the road than on my way uphill. All the way down, I feel the need to go faster and faster, as if something evil is breathing at the back of my neck, ready to devour me if I slow down or turn around (The Moon).
And then I wake up.
DECK USED: DARK SPHYNX TAROT
Gideon’s Challenge
Hidden
I am the one
concealed in the green
peering out
to watch
from dappled shadows
and swaying fronds.
I am the one
that sees you.
That secret wild you
civilization
will not accept…
but I do.
Photo © ZenStatePhotography
Gideon’s Challenge
Just Don’t
tender
vulnerable
and feeling
without defense
the hint of raw
beneath the flesh
stirs up
the need to
hide
Subdrop sucks.
Photo © ZenStatePhotography
Gideon’s Challenge
Encouraged
I see
a little bear face
nestled
among the moss
on a hike
among the trees
and draping ferns.
A painted bear face
that brightens
my heart
and suddenly
each step
is a bit lighter.
Painted rocks are all the rage around here these days. You can find them in the city, in the park, on hikes… just about everywhere if you pay attention. Usually, the hikes I go on are a little too strenuous for those that do the whole “painted rock thing”, not to mention who would want to haul rocks on a hike? I found this one on one of the easier hikes, though, just waiting off the trail in some moss to peek out and encourage a smile.
Twisting the Leaf 