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Notes from Self-Shiv

Notes from Self-Shiv

❤️ Love is my currency. Life is my teacher. Drawing labyrinths guides my way. Finding pieces of peace everywhere I can. Sharing stories as I go ❤️

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Calling in the Divine

3 min readSep 18, 2023

A poem, day 17/30

I’d never peg myself as being a prude, but I had given up on the idea of love, and subsequently, that would include no more sex, at 34 when I was training with a Buddhist Lama to take my vows to become a nun.

And I was ok with it, I had done it good when I did it so to speak and I could do without it, for it surely comes with many entanglements, and I am a fewer the better kinda person when it comes to entanglements!

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But then my Lama behaved inappropriately, but that is another story for another time and topic.

It was time for a change of direction.

Then I had the pivotal experience of literally getting naked with myself deep in nature for the first time. This weekend with myself and other naked people changed me in a way words cannot express, but another time in another story we will try!

Fortitude and a little lady luck intervened, and I did not take my robes and vows. The teachings stayed within me along with some very confused ones about the inappropriate behavior. But again, another story for another day.

I did meet Cemaaj. Love unexpectedly tore open my heart just when I had tidily put it all away to feel love of a different sort.

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Notes from Self-Shiv
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❤️ Love is my currency. Life is my teacher. Drawing labyrinths guides my way. Finding pieces of peace everywhere I can. Sharing stories as I go ❤️