The Ache of Goddess

6/13/2015

As these hands lift and turn the dark soil
Making ready for the promise of Festival:
My heart aches with the ache of Goddess

Contrasting the tired privilege of domination...

This gypsy soul wanders gentle beneath
The girdle of power: here, the left hand
Enjoys what the right hand is doing

Contrasting the tired privilege of domination...

Sobriety in prayer differs by just one degree
From the drunkenness of the heart: wasting
Time writing poems perhaps no one will read

Contrasting the tired privilege of domination...

Longing for the "now" of lasting delight and
Every path leading through Love's design: grace
Is leaving no one outside the Garden wanting in

Contrasting the tired privilege of domination...

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Robert Daniel Smith was privileged to serve the homeless and marginalized for 30 years in Salinas, California. Together with his wife, Michelle, they founded an intentional community called the 'Companions of the Way', also in Salinas. Robert and Michelle are community organizers, Catholic Worker renegades, sacred activists, writers, poets, artists, Divine Mother devotees, and practitioners of Kriya Yoga as taught by Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian of the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment. Michelle is also a Montessori public school teacher. Robert is an ordained Interfaith Minister. Together, Robert and Michelle, are founders of the Iona House in River Falls...

"Currently living in the Midwest, we are imagining and preparing for our next adventure: beginning another intentional community modeled after Celtic and Creation Spirituality, the Franciscan / Catholic Worker vision, the Findhorn, the Iona Community in Scotland and serving disadvantaged children and youth through retreats, the arts, and publications...

Might you share our passion for intentional possibilities, for the practice of beauty, and for living lives of deep purpose and a nonviolent kindness?

Essential Reading:

Be Love Now by Ram Dass

The Rebirthing of God by John Philip Newell

The Hope by Andrew Harvey

The Return of the Mother by Andrew Harvey

The Coming of the Cosmic Christ by Matthew Fox

Creation Spirituality by Matthew Fox

Loaves and Fishes by Dorothy Day

Sacred Pleasure by Riane Eisler

Occupy Spirituality by Adam Bucko and Matthew Fox

Untie the Strong Woman by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D.

Existence by David Hinton

Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

The Self-Aware Universe by Amit Goswami, Ph.D.

Bhagavad Gita by Eknath Easwaran

The Unvarnished New Testament by Andy Gaus

The Wisdom Jesus by Rev. Cynthia Bourgeault

Living the Eternal Way by Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian

Tao / The Watercourse Way by Alan Watts

Listening For The Heartbeat of God by John Philip Newell

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