Day: May 9, 2010

Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Ebb and Flow. I dreamed  of The Treat this morning.  It’s been several weeks since he’s visited in dreams or meditations and when he has, it’s been to show me things at his job. This time, he just kept saying that he’s been really focused on…

Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Ebb and Flow. I’m making huge progress tonight on finishing a special project  that’s  been floating  around for over a year now. In fact, it should have been done a year ago, but for some reason, it was delayed. I didn’t understand it then. Why the…

Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Ebb and Flow. Artists wear their work like a second skin, and flinch when their art is not as cared for, particularly by someone important to them.  And when  their  art  is appreciated, they glow. Whether our medium is paper, paint, pixels, or measures of music,…

Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Ebb and Flow. Destroying  a  person’s   self-confidence   is  a  time- honored method of stealing his power and harnessing  it for personal or corporate purposes. One of my colleagues  whom I respect was recently offered a slot with a prestigious firm. Good money, great career…

Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Ebb and Flow. Elizabeth, the woman who dominated my childhood is dead. The most hateful woman I have ever known in my life. My father’s mother died this morning. She didn’t care for me even  before I was born, and yes, I’ll share that story, too.…

Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Ebb and Flow. I’m a jealous girl. And that is by no means an apology. It is a statement of fact. An acknowledgement  of a “darker”  emotion  that we,  as humans  are supposed  to keep under tight control or be judged as inferior and that we…

Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Ebb and Flow. I have on one very recent occasion allowed my older daughter, who’s close to 17, to stay alone overnight whileI was away on a business trip. Her dad was aware and she had plenty of backups. I’d also offered to make arrangements for…

Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Ebb and Flow. Since I was 14, I’ve had different types of dreams. Some are a hodge-podge  of daily life…just mundane things or fear dreams or simply recounting the day.   Some  are  prophetic—that  first  happened  with  my cousin Terri’s unexpected death when I was 14,…

Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Ebb and Flow. I love the afterglow of a good ritual. The smell of bonfire smoke in my hair and dragon’s blood on my skin. The way the evening started out cloudy until a certain point in the rit, and now there’s a huge circle around…

Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Ebb and Flow. After the  oh-so-sweet  full  moon  ritual  last  night,  I wondered how  my next meditation  would go. The answer? Strangely. I have to write this out in order to make sense of it. I was in a building (here we go again with metaphysical…