by jlouden | Mar 11, 2020 | Blog, Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
In the 2003 second edition of The Woman’s Retreat Book, I wrote: Retreats. The word has an almost mystical power for me, a feeling of coming home to my deepest truth. Rabbi David Cooper in Silence, Simplicity and Solitude writes, “All of us have a deep reservoir of...
by jlouden | Feb 12, 2020 | Blog, Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
A desireless life is one that has lost its luster, one that feels like no life at all. “I’ve been trying to understand desire for decades. I’ve denied it, short-changed it, ignored it, but I’ve learned that without desire, there is no life. There are simulations,...
