Jennifer Posada

Sunday, August 17th, 2008
As I write these words at my kitchen table, thunder rolls around me on a cloudy Sunday. Summer is at its height, and the drying grass and fading sweet pea flowers tell me both that the season is changing, and yet that the harvest has just begun…
So too did last night’s [...]

Saturday, August 9th, 2008
Welcome, dear loved ones and friends, to one step deeper into the time of the greatest change and shift this planet has ever known…to a new Mayan year…a Blue Electric Storm year…to the Portal (read my newest Oracle Message here) opening with this months eclipses, and to both hitting a new apex…a [...]

Monday, July 28th, 2008
A couple of weeks ago, in ceremony, my heart opened…
My heart, an exquisite flower, opens often…and closes beautifully too. It breathes. But this was different. This was deeper. My body was made of butterfly wings…of roses, and my heart became a landscape too vast to describe. It [...]

(alternately titled “Moss Breath”)
Monday, July 7th, 2008
The other night at the sauna, as I gave myself over to the heat and felt it wrap its burning fingers around the last cool flesh on my body, I wanted to cry. It’s not that it really caused me pain…it just hurt inside to let go. [...]

Monday, June 17th, 2008
If you love something…let it go.
If it is meant to, it comes back to you…
Such simple words to contain such an unbelievable secret, and incredible mystery. I used to think these words were a consolation only, something to comfort yourself with when you could no longer hope to have what you [...]

Sunday, June 1st, 2008
Why am I like this?
Why, oh why am I like this?… I thought as I literally ran through the great, columned halls of Karnak temple. Everyone else was poking around like a good tourist…but I had to be running, top speed, ready to take a left at the perfect moment and [...]

Sunday, May 25th, 2008
I have decided that yoga is essential to my well-being.
It isn’t that I become someone else when I do it…it is that I become more myself. Everything begins to roll off of me in waves, and I begin to shake the dust off of my wings, and the restraints. But [...]

Monday, May 12th, 2008
On a long night with friends recently I was talking to the Buddha during a quiet moment.  I had been sort-of complaining about how most people think that enlightenment is a far-off goal that you obtain when you reach “perfection,” having left all of your “flaws” behind.  Buddha came to confirm that [...]

Saturday, May 2nd, 2008 ~ Seattle, Washington
(this is the continuation of a travel journal that begins with the April 18th entry further below)
It’s hard to know how to find words in moments like these, but then knowing myself as I do I just wait a little longer and they always do come. Besides, now [...]

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 ~ Delphi, Greece

(this is the continuation of a travel journal that begins with the April 18th entry further below)
It will come…
That is what the young man I met today in a store, a kindred spirit, told me they say in Greek when they do the traditional ancient handshake. “It will [...]