It is easy to forget that every aspect of our spiritual or moral life is enacted on the body. The story of recovery, the story of our lives, is both spiritual and physical. If we want to find what matters, what our rights and wrongs are, we do best to start in the body. It’s …
My sister stands at the counter, chopping carrots. The light comes from a window behind me, blinding me to much more than her form and the denseness of her body in the looser air around her, the sound of the knife on the cutting board. Her daughter runs around her legs, out of the kitchen …
I am afraid, I realize, coming up the walk as the grey in the sky shifts from moiled threat to actual water. The actual air is actual water: not rain, not fog, but mist that soaks everything. Everything was already wet, treebark and field and last years grasses. Everything is sponge. The house stands dark, …
There is a gap between our inner world and reality. In order to live, we begin to bridge that gap. This makes the concept of step two – fix the within to change the without – feel and seem irrational. We have problems with reality. We have problems with our physical bodies, our relationships, our …
