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wild grief

wild grief

by Gerri Ravyn Stanfield | Apr 15, 2015 | Revolution of the Spirit, Revolutionary Poems | 8 comments

in spring, the gray light is webbed and wet. I walk the tightrope of my healerteacherwriter life. some days, I coax words into the whitespace and listen some nights, from the mists, thirteen wild ones pour into the living room with maenad claws and fearless soft skins...
Modern Day Initiation: What Doesn’t Kill Us

Modern Day Initiation: What Doesn’t Kill Us

by Gerri Ravyn Stanfield | Mar 20, 2015 | Revolution of the Spirit, Uncategorized | 13 comments

  I will survive this initiation too. My 92 year old grandmother’s body winces when she smiles. Momo can only give a ghost of her former laugh. She whispers to every nurse who comes in her room that I am her first born grandchild. I feed her small bites of a...

The Gifts of Initiation ~ Surviving in Times of Change

by Gerri Ravyn Stanfield | Jan 31, 2013 | Uncategorized | 1 comment

Thomas Berry, a Catholic monk and universal philosopher, says “One of the most frequent archetypes is the performance of death and rebirth ceremonies. Humans are not fully human until they’ve gone through some ceremonial rebirth.” Initiation is one way of coding...
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