Today’s poem is hot off the press, I wrote it a few weeks ago. Wishing you a weekend filled with the joy found in the spaces between… Silence For a moment Life pauses And I feel into the space between heartbeats Amid all the busyness of life sits the gap The in-between The rest The quiet between the notes of life's symphony That make it a masterpiece When the cacophony inside Is deafening The quiet is lost The melody obscured Harmony distorted Fullness beyond capacity render

This Friday’s poem is a celebration of love which I wrote back in 2010. To me love is what life is, it is the flow I become part of in deep meditation, it is the benevolence that connects all. This is not to say life always feels this way, sometimes it is just hard, gritty and painful. It’s in these times that our connection may be lost. Aloneness can set in, separating us from the flow of life and taking us into a mindset of fear and scarcity. In these times we need love

This week I want to share a poem I wrote back in 2008 about the nature of change, using a water metaphor. Have a wonderful weekend noticing the new channels tentatively forming in your life. River Drop (Fe Robinson, 2008) Stillness fills the air That soft, calm peace that follows heavy rain Glistening wet, the newly watered ground lays naked in the swelling breeze Tender puffs of wind dry the land Firming newly made furrows Tiny channels chiselled in the soil form flexing and

I open Warm and welcoming I feel the flow Uplifting It gently takes my weight The deeper I yield The higher my flight Silently I give thanks for the wisdom and courage of ages There within me, since the dawn of time When I stop, and truly receive I live it, and it lives me Fe Robinson, 2022 Wishing you a weekend of yielding to the feminine within and without, in which you can take flight, free of whatever may otherwise constrain you. #inspiration #poetry #friday #weekend

Rumi’s beautiful poem, The Guest House, invites us to embrace all comers in our inner world, to welcome our emotions as the messages they are. Here’s a meditation on Doubt that I wrote back in 2012, in this same spirit of welcome. Wishing you a weekend filled with love, in all its forms. Doubt Doubt curls up, a fiery, gnarled ball in the pit of my stomach Fear, anxiety, my emotions flash with intensity And all at once I am like a small child Clamouring for comfort and reassu

“Everything flows, out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm compensates” from the Hermetic Kybalion, quoted by Peter Levine in In An Unspoken Voice. I find this quotation profoundly helpful. Health is a state of flow, a natural rhythm. Healing calls for flow, for rhythm, for movement and grace. When we are flowing we are

This wonderful John O’Donohue poem has popped into my awareness a few times in recent weeks, I wanted to share it for all those who may be feeling in between, in the interim: When near the end of day, life has drained Out of light, and it is too soon For the mind of night to have darkened things, No place looks like itself, loss of outline Makes everything look strangely in-between, Unsure of what has been, or what might come. In this wan light, even trees seem groundless. In

Walk as tall as the trees Live as strong as the mountains Be as gentle as the spring winds Keep the warmth of the summer sun in your heart and all will be well. Native American Proverb Wishing you a weekend of warm gentle strength #friday #weekend #inspiration #fridayfeeling

“You are the artist of your own life. Don’t hand the paintbrush to anyone else!” I saw this quote online and it made me smile, I’m not sure who wrote it but I’m thankful they did. What will you create on the canvass of your weekend? #friday #weekend #inspiration #quotes

Expecting the worst, you look, and instead, Here’s the joyful face you’ve been waiting to see. Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding. The two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birdwings. Rumi Wishing you a weekend of opening and closing, of natural rhythm, of expanding and contracting, of beautiful balance. #weekend #

May you recognize in your life the presence, power, and light of your soul. May you realize that you are never alone, that your soul in its brightness and belonging connects you intimately with the rhythm of the universe. May you have respect for your individuality and difference. May you realize that the shape of your soul is unique, that you have a special destiny here, that behind the façade of your life, there is something beautiful and eternal happening. John O'Donahue I

“My formula for greatness is a human being is amor fati; that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it...but love it.” Fredrich Nietzsche This touched me so deeply, the sense of nothing lacking, nothing more needed or wanted, completeness right here, right now in whatever is present. Wishing you a weekend filled with presence and contentment. #inspiration #friday #weekend #phi

“Being in our bodies is not about performance or results, it's about coming home. It's a pleasurable, sensual connection that reminds us that life is worth living even when we are in pain or struggling.” Esther Perel Wishing you a weekend of vibrant, connected being, at home in your body. #inspiration #friday #weekend

“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island for boats to save; they just stand there shining.” Anne Lamott This quote really made me smile. It reminds me of Marianne Williamson’s words from A Return to Love when she says “as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” Sometimes it can be hard to simply shine your light, without apology, cav

"People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle." Thich Nhat Hanh Wishing you a weekend filled with the miraculous that is within and around you. #fridayfeeling #friday #weekend #in

When I opened my copy of Matt Haig’s new book The Comfort Book, it was with some excitement, I am a big fan. A few seconds later these words in the initial notes brought tears to my eyes: “The theme is connection. We are all things. And we connect to all things. Human to human. Moment to moment. Pain to pleasure. Despair to hope. When times are hard, we need a deep kind of comfort. Something elemental. A solid support. A rock to hold on to. The kind we already have i

“Most people are afraid of suffering. But suffering is a kind of mud to help the lotus flower of happiness grow. There can be no lotus flower without the mud.” Thich Nhat Hanh Wishing you a weekend in which you notice happiness growing through whatever mud may be part of your life. #inspiration #weekend #friday

“I’m not looking to escape my darkness, I am learning to love myself there” Rune Lazuli Wishing you a weekend of self-love, of shade, and of light. #friday #weekend #fridayfeeling #inspiration

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline There’s no point pretending life is all sunshine and flowers, it isn’t. A life well lived is about truly seeing the darkness, and knowing that it is the contrast that shows us the light. Wishing you a weekend of slaying dragons, or noticing shadows...in your own way of both speaking truths and transcending them. #friday #