I wrote the prose poem, The Invitation one night after returning home from a party… I don’t usually attend parties but on this occasion, berating myself for being anti‐social, I made an effort to go and be friendly. I returned home feeling frustrated, dissatisfied with the superficial level of the social interaction at the party. I longed for something else. As I write in the beginning of my book The Invitation is “. . . a declaration of intent, a map into the longing of the soul, the desire to live passionately, face‐to‐face with ourselves and skin‐to‐skin with the world.” It is the story of a very human woman who longs to live fully awake. It is the story of the human heart’s capacity and longing to live intimately with all of it‐the joy and the sorrow, the hope and the fear. The Invitation It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your hear...
Women's Spiritual Poetry