My life has always attracted unexpected bedfellows, but this year has brought together an unusual assemblage of people with shared goals and vision. Each of them reinforces our message of positive sensuality employed with humanitarian purpose, making Anne of Carversville a magnet for Smart Sensuality people.

Each of us is touched by the profundity of life and also its profane aspect. One person’s profanity is another’s beauty and right course of action. Caught in this web of real life, we judge each other daily.

In profound ways, these new people in my life nourish me, empowering the goal of liberating women in particular, but men, too, from the guilt trip and ‘shame on you’ badge of dishonor that hangs around our necks — simply because we find pleasure in smelling roses, the beauty of mountains and the seductive gloriousness of nature.

If a tea-leaves reader would have told me last Christmas that:

1) I would be writing a new 2Ps in a Pod blog with a Christian Carmelite Brother Dennis;

2) have a dearest friend body psychotherapist Ellen Gayda, who lays her hands not only on my body but also my spirit;

3) be writing about AOC muse and personal Smart Sensuality idol Angelina Jolie’s new movie ‘The Land of Blood and Honey’ — which I will see this week —while having a lightbulb moment that

4) my passion for Morfium Couture brand is created by Dusan Jaukovic and Jelena Malesevic — who live in Jolie’s land of honey in Belgrade — only to find out that

5) the poem I will use in this post came from Anjeza Duro, my Facebook friend in Toronto but originally  Albania, a country whose honey fate became terribly intertwined with events in Bosnia and later on in Kosovo …

 … well, I would have said ‘no way, not even with me’ because the complexity of the connections runs full circle, not stopping here.

I asked permission from Dusan and Jelena to use their Phoenix Rising, female-centric values Morfium images on Bro. Dennis’ and my 2Ps in a Pod blog (with religious subjects, I always ask permission), only to have the good brother be spellbound by their beauty and explain his very high-level contacts who might help our friends move Morfium out of Belgrade, which is their goal.

My own willingness to nurture this magnificently relevant, women’s wisdom Morfium brand was expressed earlier in the fall. Now we have the possibility of divine intervention on a grand scale on Morfium’s behalf. Stay tuned.

Claiming Personal Power

When I wrote that I wanted nothing more to do with the Catholic Church on my own life journey to self love, I couldn’t imagine being in his orbit today. With my principles intact, I will gladly try to help him with his Easeamine anti-aging skin care initiative.

Ellen Gayda weighed in on Friday, saying “I think we need to rectify through ritual the priest denying you communion when you were 15.” My gym injury healer has been nurturing my spirit, as well as fixing my body, since she met me in July.

Ellen persists in coaxing me to take back my power in ritual from those who stole it or accepted it under false pretenses in earlier stages of my life. Power returned and recycled for use on my terms and those of my colleagues and friends will be spent for humanity this time. Ellen believes we must physically and spiritually take back our power from those who have wronged us badly, in private healing ceremonies.

Most of us suffer in life, and I’m actually one of those people who believes that suffering is necessary for personal growth and to make us attuned to the unjust situations of others. It’s correct to say that the agony of humanity has haunted me since I was a little girl.

There is no justifiable explanation or excuse for the extreme suffering waged in the name of God and nationalism worldwide.

Ironically, writing last Christmas Day 2010, I shared my dream of waking up with a scream, shouting with rage over the wars of men and their devastating impact on women, children and our planet. Today, it’s my friend Anjeza Duro’s words that resonate so profoundly this first day of 2012. 

Clockwise upper left: Ellen Gayda; Anjeza Duro; Brother Dennis-Anthony; Anjelina Jolie. Center: Morfium Couture“The Post-human Condition”