musings By Crystal
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Part Two: The Mirror That Did Not Leave
series: Mirror, Mirror Reconsidered A Note for the Reader (Zwischenraum) the in-between space What follows is part two of the small collection of mirrors. Some speak through understanding. Others...
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Part One: The Mirror That Did Not Ask Us to Disappear
series: Mirror, Mirror Reconsidered A Note for the Reader (Lingua Franca) the bridge language —beneath explanation What follows is part one to a small collection of mirrors. Some speak...
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A Sacred Pause
When the Pattern Finally Consented to Be Seen (Polyvagal, Parts, and the Quiet Intelligence That Heals) Before there is language for trauma, the body already has pattern. Before there...
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For the Relationship We Have Never Had a Name For
There is a kind of relationship we are never taught how to name. It is not friendship. It is not family. It is not romance. And yet—it changes us....
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BEING Part II – White Horses
Being ~ Haecceity (Part Two: An Artist’s Insight into Holy Orders) There is a truth beneath this poem that reveals itself not through time, but through depth: the distinction...
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At the Edge
Light in the Deep a finisterre reflection - where ground turns to ocean There was a time when air felt like a shoreline I could not reach. Days...
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The Season That Taught Me Silence
a season of unmaking and re-forming There are tides in a life when the soul draws us below the surface— into waters the mind does not yet know...
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BEING – Part I (Holy Orders)
Being (Holy Orders) ~ While Not Known february 2020 — written about the sea & me, while in pensacola with The Coastline Symphony: Seven Movements a liturgy of sea,...
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Free Diver as Metaphor of my Unfolding Narrative
Opus Interiorem Latin for: Inner Work Inner work—though deeply personal—is not necessarily private. Healing needs solitude, yes, but it is also strengthened by the presence of others who can...
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There is No Way ~ Except to Stay ~ Present
non est ita nisi ut maneat ~Latin For~ There is No Way ~ Except to Stay ~ Present The Sequel The Power of Staying In and With The Conversation...