Do Your Thing

Photo source: Anon

Photo source: Anon

“Do what you are called to do,
what you truly want to do
‘cause it isn’t going to go away, this feeling.
It’s just going to grow stronger. ”
— Tricia Schwaba

Yoga Closing 9/21/20

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“There is a seen order unfolding in front of us every day on our streets and in the news. In this visible order, violence reigns and children are shot in their schools and warmongers prosper and 1% of the world hoards half of all we have. We call this order of things reality. This is “the way things are.” It’s all we can see because it’s all we’ve ever seen. Yet something inside us rejects it. We know instinctively: This is not the intended order of things. This is not how things are meant to be. . We know that there is a better, truer, wilder way.That better way is the unseen order inside us. It is the vision we carry in our imagination about a truer, more beautiful world — one in which all children have enough to eat and we no longer kill each other and mothers do not have to cross deserts with their babies on their backs. This better idea is what Jews call Shalom, Buddhists call nirvana, Christians call heaven, Muslims call salaam, and many agnostics call peace. It is not a place out there — not yet; it’s the hopeful swelling in here, pressing through our skin, insisting that it is all meant to be more beautiful than this. And it can be, if we refuse to wait to die and “go to heaven” and instead find heaven inside us and give birth to it here and now. If we work to make the vision of the unseen order swelling inside us visible in our lives, homes and nations, we will make reality more beautiful. On Earth as it is in heaven. In our material world as it is in our imagination.”
— Glennon Doyle, from her book Untamed

Well

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The well runs deeper than I could have imagined.
It dives, not just to the depth of me but to the depths of the Earth.
I have tried to sever the cord to my own frustration and to no avail.
I am here connected until other entities decide
It is time for my return.
So I continue to practice.

Tricia Schwaba, September 2020

Yoga Prayer 9/8/2020

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“I sat in the garden that night & I thought about the most important thing for me. That we love & are loved. All the time in every moment, no matter how it looks to other eyes that don’t remember quite yet. That’s why I think remembering is one of the most important things we can do right now. It’s how we stop & see the world again for the very first time. In all of its aching beauty & joy & pain. the immensity of all of it. It’s how we open to being loved wildly & deliciously until we are filled beyond anything we ever thought we could hold.”

Brian Andreas, Something Like Magic

Nothing More

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Art source: ancello.com

I feel a rush as I take in the air 

I’m approaching the North and my nostrils they flare. 

I’m a racehorse trapped in the starting gate tight

Hearing the gunshot it’s time to take flight. 

I shake off the saddle & break from the reins 

Freedom from both limitation and pain

Skimming the Earth my spirit it soars

With grace and excitement, I need nothing more.

Tricia Schwaba August 2020

Bridle the Beast, From the Archives

Art Source: Finartamerica.com

Art Source: Finartamerica.com

It’s the piece that stays with you 

The one that won’t leave

The annoying brat that 

Tugs at your sleeve

The haunting memory 

That painful episode

The awkward rendezvous

That makes your head explode.

That which stays with you 

Is the thing to examine

To gain some insight 

To shift what will happen

So instead of the torment

You are blessed with release

Make peace with your past

Bridle the beast

From that moment on 

Your days you may find 

More peaceful and freer

As the tension unwinds

You may be astounded 

By the expanse it creates

The gray of despair 

Now colored with grace. 

Tricia Schwaba, 2011