La Belle Personne (2008)
“Slow is often overlooked in rushed culture. Its’ oracle is not acknowledged, properly understood, or respected. The slow breath. A slow first kiss. Slowly disrobing in front of a lover. Slow lovemaking. Slow to get up out of a warm bed. Slow stretching. Slow yoga. Slow bathing. Slow and steady. Slowly walking through an airport to catch a flight. Slow decision-making. Slow crockpot cooking. Slow eating. Slow creativity. The pause before we speak. When we give ourselves (our cells) permission to slow down, our whole system is met in a magical place where regeneration and rejuvenation naturally begin to occur without any effort from us.”
— India Ame’ye, Author, Energy of Gods
(via valovita, valovita)
sometimes, when the light by Lisel Mueller
me after sitting in the sun for ten minutes: love is real
Being feminine looks like
the calm, THE STORM, The Equilibrium.
An evolved continuation of my last poem, “I wanted to feed the flowers, you wanted a flood”.
This version is a from my current self, an ode to my past. This is the divine feminine. The unshakable, wild, intuitive, unapologetic, fierce, overgrown, uninhibited, imperishable feminine nature. ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
I’ve always found myself in storms, but I tended to resonate in a melancholic manner. Rain, thunder, lightning— they were expressions of my deep emotional nature. However, like most inherent feminine qualities, being “too emotional” felt like a burden to me; like a flaw. In reality, this is just another fallacy women are made to believe. When our emotional nature is understood and cultivated, it is undoubtedly a superpower.
— from Little Weirds, Jenny Slate