retinal perspectives

learning to listen

I was thinking about all of the things I've tried in the past couple of years of working on my stuff (also known as learning more about myself and why I do the things I do).

The list is long - and goes from seemingly ordinary (like writing in a journal) to seemingly out-of-the-ordinary (like soul retrieval).

But really, it all boils down to one thing: learning to listen to myself. Not my mind - that was the only thing I ever used to listen to - but my body and my inner wisdom.

And somehow the listening slowly changed everything.

know this - volume 3

know this - volume 2

real women are pretty

I was going to write an entirely different post today, but I was finishing The Rainmaker while watching lunch (it's an old movie with Katherine Hepburn as a lonely ranch girl and Burt Lancaster as a con man). When I found myself writing down a quote from the movie, I just had to share it.

"There's no such thing as a plain woman. Every real woman is pretty. They're all pretty in a different way, but they're all pretty. .. Don't let [someone else] be your looking glass. [That's] in the wrong place. It's got to be inside you. Don't be afraid - look." - Burt Lancaster as Starbuck

It is such a good reminder.

know this - volume 1