HARVESTING LOVE:
Finding Love in Unexpected (& Expected) Places

“Giving voice, communicating, is a sacred way to free love.”

Ani’s Harvesting Love blog is dedicated to releasing the energy of love into the world.

 

The blog’s purpose is also to treasure the gift of language, the power of giving voice.  Read More

The Pause & The Alchemy of Love

The Pause & The Alchemy of Love

Dear One, In "CATCHING STARS," one of the vignettes in my memoir, Angels on the Clothesline, the young me lies down in the grass looking up at the night sky.  She finds it hard to keep singing, quieted by the immensity of the sky.  Awe silences her until she finds her...

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Living Prayer

Living Prayer

Dear One, Recently, it was my honor to be invited to write something for the Albert and Amelia Ferst Interfaith Center newsletter.  I was to keep in mind the theme of finding light in the darkness.  The rest was up to me.  I am happy to share with you what made its...

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The Wisdom of Children

The Wisdom of Children

Dear One,  I open with a post below that I shared on Facebook, inspired by finding my granddaughter' Sula's words spoken when she was six, written down by her mother and pinned to my refrigerator almost exactly two years ago.  "What is the real meaning of...

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With a full heart…

With a full heart…

Hello, dear One, For the past two weeks, I have found myself crying often, mostly stunned into silence, at times brimming words, with questions, prayers, longing, or filled by the words of others, their grief, reflections, analyses, cautions, pleas.     Every time...

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Good enough?  Really??

Good enough? Really??

Dear One, I have a habit of never feeling like I am doing enough.  Another form this habit takes is “I’m doing it wrong"—whatever it is. I know the roots of this in my childhood.  I could never do enough to ease the suffering of my parents, who had endured and lost so...

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Teachers of Love

Teachers of Love

Below is a piece I wrote (subsequently translated into Spanish) for "Memorias desde el Tugurio," an important book about communities of "squatters," shanty town dwellers, known in Colombia as 'tugurianos," and the rebel priest, Padre Vicente Mejia, who served them and...

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Celebrating Our Creativity

Celebrating Our Creativity

"Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. . . . Say yes quickly, if you know it, if you've known it from before the beginning of the universe."~ RumiThis article was originally published in BODY MIND SPIRIT MAGAZINE in 1996. AN ANTHROPOLOGIST IS ENTHRALLED...

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