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Officially 56 and still causing a little cosmic tr

Officially 56 and still causing a little cosmic trouble.
Happy summer solstice y’all. ☀️

#birthday #summersolstice #solstice

A little light summer reading. Thank you to @lesbi

A little light summer reading.
Thank you to @lesbian_grandpa and @underwood_books for these two treasures 📚

…waiting for me at the back of @bluelinecoffeeomaha where Underwood Books winks and waits for you.
(Hours are Wednesday through Saturday 11am-5pm, Sunday 11am-1pm for Omahans who are wanting a summer read)

These books have been calling me for days.
The last time I read them was in college.
I am not that woman anymore.
I’m more me.

As winter turned to spring this year, @orionsongcatcher and I entered our own strange, yet beautiful odyssey.

Two road trips west in the span of 3 months, we’ve left parts of ourselves by the road.

Old ancient personal traditions are composting even now somewhere in the Cascade mountains of Washington. ⛰️

Months later, we retired more stories as redwood nourishment in the high Sierra’s of California. 🌲

Others were spread like dust in the low desert expanse east of LA, or melted like the marine layer at the Pacific Ocean. 🌊

Miles upon miles, meetups and rendezvous later — all to face mortality of family members, the powerful weave of the storytelling mind, and the tractor beam of time travel in a family system.

Two weeks back, I sat with my cousins in Ojai at dinner and one of their friend’s dropped by with the Iliad under his arm.

My cousin shared this quote like a thespian with smiling flair at the table, “Now go, don’t tempt my wrath - and you may depart alive.”

We all laughed heartily at her booming voice rippling potency.

Here’s the thing.
Parts of us must go.
Like old skin sloughed off by friction and water, parts of us will drop off on the roadside.

The only way we can wake up is through disruption.
Because, as you may have discovered, friction is our ally.
For all our demons are here to greet us as friend.

What’s your summer read?
I’d love to know.

#omahaliving #poetry #odyssey #herojourney #summerread

🌀 KEEP ROLLING On May 2nd, just before Orion @ori

🌀 KEEP ROLLING

On May 2nd, just before Orion @orionsongcatcher and I left for what unfolded as a family odyssey in California, I had the honor of reading this ekphrastic poem at Harvester Gallery in Council Bluffs.

Ekphrastic poetry is a conversation between art forms — a poem inspired by visual artwork. This piece was written in response to Julie Jenowe’s breathtaking Cascading Moon Lotus Tumbleweed sculpture, a work that immediately spoke to me about nature’s mentorship of surrender, movement, resilience, and trust.

As I spent time with her sculpture, while listening to a beloved Kate Bush song called “Snowflake,” I found myself imagining the voice of the tumbleweed itself:

🌾 Born of soil.
🌬 Uprooted by wind.
✨ Discovering that what looked like an ending was a new beginning.

This is our life: rolling again and again through transitions of every kind.

And that family odyssey? It was yet another hero journey. 
Family illness.
Unexpected turns.
Long highways.
Letting go of plans.
High strangeness amid differences.
Trusting the next gust of wind.  Another hero journey inside this sacred soul adventure of mine in the quantum wilderness — calling me ever deeper home.
 Art is a mirror, an invitation, and a reminder. Art prepares us for more participation with life.

One of my favorite lines:
“...my death is my second life.”

And another:
“The world is so vast.
Keep rolling.
I’ll find you.”

Thank you, Julie Jenowe @jwjenowe, for creating such evocative work, and to Traci Shacht @redontherocks and the other poets at Harvester Gallery for hosting Ekphrastic: an art show where visual art dances with poetry.

What line, image, or feeling stays with you after listening?🌀
I’d love to know.

Read the full poem on my blog • link in bio
🔗 https://astararaven.love/illuminate-blog/keep-rolling/

#Ekphrastic #SpokenWord #KeepRolling #Nature #ArtAndPoetry

A client sent this after our session… and it says

A client sent this after our session…
and it says everything.

The work doesn’t end when we close the call.
It ripples. It lands. It integrates.

Sometimes as clarity.
Sometimes as emotion.
Sometimes as a quiet, peaceful night under a full moon.

If you’re ready for that kind of shift —
the kind that stays with you —
you know where to find me.
#scorpio #fullmoon #atlanticocean #depthwork #astararaven

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