Author: Ignite Well-being

What is prayer to you? Prayer, to me, is non-religious. It is about my connection to my divinity, that is my entirety both deeply internal […] Read More

Many people are concerned about normality. Appearing “normal”, doing things “right” to fit in, belong, be “good”. Most of us do this at one point […] Read More

  I am thinking of the body:  how for centuries the body was intimately tied to colonial and religious concepts around sin, filth, disgust, and […] Read More

…”for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart […] Read More

“You’ve got to get your fingers in the dirt”   My ancestors, like many, were farmers, working the land for sustenance and relationship. I wonder […] Read More

  I’m outside. He’s on his porch and calls out to me: ‘I’m getting a little’ (his hands gesture) ‘procedure’ ……   With that comment, […] Read More

  This piece is written in a way that you wouldn’t expect based on the title – I don’t plan to parade wounds across the […] Read More

  I write. Or try to anyway. Poems and essays with topics given, chosen, or that have found me. Words have been my art form […] Read More

I’m traveling this week and visited a voodoo museum. I found this: containers of ritual candles with two that are empty – for love and […] Read More

  “Desire is primal. Desire is whole-body want, and desire is a yearning so formidable and precise that it is nearly a dream state, a […] Read More