{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"emma louise","home_page_url":"https://emmarockwell.com","description":"emma louise","author":{"name":"emma louise"},"items":[{"id":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/individual-freedom","html_content":"<p>The mystery of the subconscious is what quietly propels my life. Its inclinations, impulses, and sudden revelations are the living currents I choose to follow.</p>","url":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/individual-freedom","title":"Individual Freedom ","summary":"The mystery of the subconscious is what quietly propels my life. Its inclinations, impulses, and sudden revelations are the living currents I choose to follow.","date_modified":"2026-06-27T06:20:03Z"},{"id":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/love-lives-but-not-how-we-may-see","html_content":"<p>For years I mistook love for possession.</p>","url":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/love-lives-but-not-how-we-may-see","title":"Love Lives, But Not How We May See","summary":"For years I mistook love for possession.","date_modified":"2026-06-23T12:36:51Z"},{"id":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/choose-vitality-choose-flow","html_content":"<p>Our intimate partners are often our first real taste of what connection could be. They are where the most can be gained, the most can be lost, and where the deepest learning happens.</p>","url":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/choose-vitality-choose-flow","title":"Choose Vitality, Choose Flow ","summary":"Our intimate partners are often our first real taste of what connection could be. They are where the most can be gained, the most can be lost, and where the deepest learning happens.","date_modified":"2026-04-26T08:32:54Z"},{"id":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/meet-me-in-what-i-want-in-who-i-am","html_content":"<p>You deserve to share what you authentically like and what feels right for you in an intimate partnership.\nFrom sex, to food, to the way you live and move through the world, your desires are yours first.\nYou do not shape ...</p>","url":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/meet-me-in-what-i-want-in-who-i-am","title":"Meet Me in What I Want, In Who I Am","summary":"You deserve to share what you authentically like and what feels right for you in an intimate partnership.\nFrom sex, to food, to the way you live and move through the world, your desires are yours first.\nYou do not shape ...","date_modified":"2026-04-11T09:00:20Z"},{"id":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/barriers-of-entry","html_content":"<p>Who are you when there is nothing left to prove?\nWho are you when you are no longer impressive, no longer achieving, no longer becoming?</p>","url":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/barriers-of-entry","title":"Barriers of Entry","summary":"Who are you when there is nothing left to prove?\nWho are you when you are no longer impressive, no longer achieving, no longer becoming?","date_modified":"2026-04-09T09:35:37Z"},{"id":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/taken-by-perception","html_content":"<p>Sleep takes me whole\nnot as rest\nbut as a quiet undoing</p>","url":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/taken-by-perception","title":"Taken By Perception","summary":"Sleep takes me whole\nnot as rest\nbut as a quiet undoing","date_modified":"2026-04-06T08:56:48Z"},{"id":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/on-its-own-side","html_content":"<p>like blossoms in spring, my heart opens\npetal by petal\nafter seasons of restraint</p>","url":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/on-its-own-side","title":"On Its Own Side ","summary":"like blossoms in spring, my heart opens\npetal by petal\nafter seasons of restraint","date_modified":"2026-04-04T08:57:14Z"},{"id":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/where-life-moves","html_content":"<p>Each day\nan opening</p>","url":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/where-life-moves","title":"Where Life Moves ","summary":"Each day\nan opening","date_modified":"2026-03-31T17:43:09Z"},{"id":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/when-the-body-softens","html_content":"<p>Love is the source from which it all began.\nBefore the noise.\nBefore the tightening.\nBefore the body learned to brace.\nThere is only expansion.\nNot pulled toward an object.\nNot grasping, not securing,\nnot trying to hold ...</p>","url":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/when-the-body-softens","title":"When the Body Softens","summary":"Love is the source from which it all began.\nBefore the noise.\nBefore the tightening.\nBefore the body learned to brace.\nThere is only expansion.\nNot pulled toward an object.\nNot grasping, not securing,\nnot trying to hold ...","date_modified":"2026-03-29T10:18:21Z"},{"id":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/she-gives-herself-everything","html_content":"<p>She no longer waits\nfor life to begin elsewhere.</p>","url":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/she-gives-herself-everything","title":"She Gives Herself Everything ","summary":"She no longer waits\nfor life to begin elsewhere.","date_modified":"2026-03-26T17:56:14Z"},{"id":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/love-without-limits","html_content":"<p>And no,\nI cannot change how you see me,\nwhat you want or do not want with me.</p>","url":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/love-without-limits","title":"Love Without Limits ","summary":"And no,\nI cannot change how you see me,\nwhat you want or do not want with me.","date_modified":"2026-03-26T17:53:10Z"},{"id":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/push-on","html_content":"<p>Oh Saturn</p>","url":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/push-on","title":"Push On","summary":"Oh Saturn","date_modified":"2026-03-26T15:32:10Z"},{"id":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/come-see-me","html_content":"<p>The smallness of a role, a perception\nbirthed from the mind of another</p>","url":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/come-see-me","title":"Come, See Me ","summary":"The smallness of a role, a perception\nbirthed from the mind of another","date_modified":"2026-03-26T08:55:50Z"},{"id":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/it-spills-over","html_content":"<p>Silent moments.\nNothing to say.</p>","url":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/it-spills-over","title":"It Spills Over ","summary":"Silent moments.\nNothing to say.","date_modified":"2026-03-23T11:12:05Z"},{"id":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/only-life-moving","html_content":"<p>Life is happening now.</p>","url":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/only-life-moving","title":"Only Life Moving ","summary":"Life is happening now.","date_modified":"2026-03-23T10:46:19Z"},{"id":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/be-it-all","html_content":"<p>Stop.</p>","url":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/be-it-all","title":"Be It All ","summary":"Stop.","date_modified":"2026-03-22T11:27:00Z"},{"id":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/a-living-spring","html_content":"<p>I am grounded\nin the linens I tuck into,\nin candlelight flickering at my side,\nin the quiet devotion of being here.</p>","url":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/a-living-spring","title":"A Living Spring ","summary":"I am grounded\nin the linens I tuck into,\nin candlelight flickering at my side,\nin the quiet devotion of being here.","date_modified":"2026-03-22T11:17:58Z"},{"id":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/a-garden-beneath-the-garden","html_content":"<p>The strongest thing in it is the contrast:\ncalm and fire\ntenderness and desire\nearthly detail and soul force</p>","url":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/a-garden-beneath-the-garden","title":"A Garden Beneath The Garden","summary":"The strongest thing in it is the contrast:\ncalm and fire\ntenderness and desire\nearthly detail and soul force","date_modified":"2026-03-21T17:15:44Z"},{"id":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/we-did-not-pass-through-each-other-lightly","html_content":"<p>a thread between us\ninvisible, quiet, persistent\nand still</p>","url":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/we-did-not-pass-through-each-other-lightly","title":"we did not pass through each other lightly","summary":"a thread between us\ninvisible, quiet, persistent\nand still","date_modified":"2026-03-21T10:43:28Z"},{"id":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/earth-and-fire","html_content":"<p>And it all has a marvellous function.</p>","url":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/earth-and-fire","title":"Earth And Fire ","summary":"And it all has a marvellous function.","date_modified":"2026-03-21T10:28:42Z"},{"id":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/the-arrangement-of-a-soul","html_content":"<p>For the outpouring of the human is sacred. It is not secondary. It is not to be postponed.\nIt rises before function, before logic, before the careful architecture of safety.\nIt answers only to the inner summons, that int...</p>","url":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/the-arrangement-of-a-soul","title":"The Arrangement Of A Soul ","summary":"For the outpouring of the human is sacred. It is not secondary. It is not to be postponed.\nIt rises before function, before logic, before the careful architecture of safety.\nIt answers only to the inner summons, that int...","date_modified":"2026-03-19T12:30:38Z"},{"id":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/rise","html_content":"<p>Rise.\nLift your eyes.\nRemember.\nRemember all you are.\nThe smiles.\nThe excitement.\nNot wrong.\nNever wrong.\nI was becoming.\nThe sun on my eyelids.\nYes.\nThank you.\nThe largeness is here.\nIn me.\nBeating.\nEndless.\nI have know...</p>","url":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/rise","title":"Rise ","summary":"Rise.\nLift your eyes.\nRemember.\nRemember all you are.\nThe smiles.\nThe excitement.\nNot wrong.\nNever wrong.\nI was becoming.\nThe sun on my eyelids.\nYes.\nThank you.\nThe largeness is here.\nIn me.\nBeating.\nEndless.\nI have know...","date_modified":"2026-03-19T09:10:41Z"},{"id":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/not-wretched-only-taught","html_content":"<p>A skill set wrought of agreeability,\nstitched softly into the fibres of my being\nbefore I knew my own name in full.</p>","url":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/not-wretched-only-taught","title":"Not Wretched, Only Taught","summary":"A skill set wrought of agreeability,\nstitched softly into the fibres of my being\nbefore I knew my own name in full.","date_modified":"2026-03-17T10:45:30Z"},{"id":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/forever-repenting","html_content":"<p>The soul is fickle, yet it strives for good,\ncradled to and fro between care and carelessness.\n“I am sorry.”\nWords so seldom spoken for the wrongs one has committed.\n“I am sorry,” uttered in the throes of being caught,\nt...</p>","url":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/forever-repenting","title":"Forever Repenting ","summary":"The soul is fickle, yet it strives for good,\ncradled to and fro between care and carelessness.\n“I am sorry.”\nWords so seldom spoken for the wrongs one has committed.\n“I am sorry,” uttered in the throes of being caught,\nt...","date_modified":"2026-03-13T19:25:32Z"},{"id":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/repentance-for-a-hardened-heart","html_content":"<p>My prayer is that my heart is not so unkind.\nI have watched it harden through the years,\nwatched the softness retreat like a tide leaving the shore.\nAnd in that hardening I have lost much.\nPerhaps everything that mattere...</p>","url":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/repentance-for-a-hardened-heart","title":"Repentance For A Hardened Heart","summary":"My prayer is that my heart is not so unkind.\nI have watched it harden through the years,\nwatched the softness retreat like a tide leaving the shore.\nAnd in that hardening I have lost much.\nPerhaps everything that mattere...","date_modified":"2026-03-10T18:25:53Z"},{"id":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/sincerity---a-life-with-feeling","html_content":"<p>And how unsatisfied I was.\nI longed for a time of sincerity.\nA time before irony became clever and fashionable.</p>","url":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/sincerity---a-life-with-feeling","title":"Sincerity: A Life With Feeling","summary":"And how unsatisfied I was.\nI longed for a time of sincerity.\nA time before irony became clever and fashionable.","date_modified":"2026-03-08T16:00:56Z"},{"id":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/ash-is-the-price-of-flame","html_content":"<p>My body strikes like flint,\nfire catching in the nerves.</p>","url":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/ash-is-the-price-of-flame","title":"Ash Is The Price Of Flame","summary":"My body strikes like flint,\nfire catching in the nerves.","date_modified":"2026-03-06T16:42:56Z"},{"id":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/a-way-of-seeing","html_content":"<p> </p>","url":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/a-way-of-seeing","title":"A Way Of Seeing ","summary":" ","date_modified":"2026-03-04T17:42:56Z"},{"id":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/unbridled-affection","html_content":"<p> </p>","url":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/unbridled-affection","title":"Unbridled Affection","summary":" ","date_modified":"2026-03-04T14:41:46Z"},{"id":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/a-soft-tiptoe","html_content":"<p>My body on the earth and my soul in the clouds,\nnot at war but in play, in conversation,\nrelating from where I once resided,\nto where I am now,\nto where I shall go again.\nI tip toe to the shore.\nMy hand held by the stead...</p>","url":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/a-soft-tiptoe","title":"A Soft Tiptoe ","summary":"My body on the earth and my soul in the clouds,\nnot at war but in play, in conversation,\nrelating from where I once resided,\nto where I am now,\nto where I shall go again.\nI tip toe to the shore.\nMy hand held by the stead...","date_modified":"2026-02-26T18:56:45Z"},{"id":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/in-the-room","html_content":"<p>The door is closed.\nMusic low enough to hear breath.\nFeet on the floor.\nWeight settles through the hips.\nNothing to perform. Nothing to prove.\nWarmth begins the movement.\nSlow at first. Then sure.\nArms loosen.\nThe spine ...</p>","url":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/in-the-room","title":"In The Room","summary":"The door is closed.\nMusic low enough to hear breath.\nFeet on the floor.\nWeight settles through the hips.\nNothing to perform. Nothing to prove.\nWarmth begins the movement.\nSlow at first. Then sure.\nArms loosen.\nThe spine ...","date_modified":"2026-02-26T18:14:18Z"},{"id":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/through-nothing-one-is-made","html_content":"<p>The spirits stripped me of my competency in things.\nCompetency in success.\nIn consumer ritual.\nIn group outings and the ease of being seated among others without fracture.\nStripped of stable mental and physical capacity....</p>","url":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/through-nothing-one-is-made","title":"Through Nothing, One Is Made ","summary":"The spirits stripped me of my competency in things.\nCompetency in success.\nIn consumer ritual.\nIn group outings and the ease of being seated among others without fracture.\nStripped of stable mental and physical capacity....","date_modified":"2026-02-26T17:31:08Z"},{"id":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/a-way-of-participation","html_content":"<p>There are seasons when the self must step forward and seasons when it must step back.</p>","url":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/a-way-of-participation","title":"A Way Of Participation ","summary":"There are seasons when the self must step forward and seasons when it must step back.","date_modified":"2026-02-23T18:10:52Z"},{"id":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/original-current","html_content":"<p>The forces touched me</p>","url":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/original-current","title":"Original Current","summary":"The forces touched me","date_modified":"2026-02-17T16:45:27Z"},{"id":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/perceptions-fire","html_content":"<p>What are you looking for, they ask.</p>","url":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/perceptions-fire","title":"Perceptions Fire ","summary":"What are you looking for, they ask.","date_modified":"2026-02-17T16:26:39Z"},{"id":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/toil-spark","html_content":"<p>Here marks the end of this enemy year and the start of a new one.\nThe karmic energies have settled and I feel a difference.</p>","url":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/toil-spark","title":"Toil & Spark ","summary":"Here marks the end of this enemy year and the start of a new one.\nThe karmic energies have settled and I feel a difference.","date_modified":"2026-02-17T08:27:59Z"},{"id":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/ground-zero","html_content":"<p>I want to touch life\nbut I do not know where to place my hands.\nEverything feels distant,\nas if the world moves behind glass\nand I press my face to it, waiting for warmth.\nThey say reach out,\nbut where.\nThey say belong,\n...</p>","url":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/ground-zero","title":"Ground Zero","summary":"I want to touch life\nbut I do not know where to place my hands.\nEverything feels distant,\nas if the world moves behind glass\nand I press my face to it, waiting for warmth.\nThey say reach out,\nbut where.\nThey say belong,\n...","date_modified":"2026-02-15T18:35:54Z"},{"id":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/orientation","html_content":"<p>I will try not to ask humans to carry God.\nI will try not to place the infinite inside a nervous system,\nor demand eternity from a body that must rest.</p>","url":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/orientation","title":"Orientation","summary":"I will try not to ask humans to carry God.\nI will try not to place the infinite inside a nervous system,\nor demand eternity from a body that must rest.","date_modified":"2026-02-07T11:04:20Z"},{"id":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/primitive","html_content":"<p>On this land that sustains me</p>","url":"https://emmarockwell.com/entries/f/primitive","title":"Primitive","summary":"On this land that sustains me","date_modified":"2026-01-23T10:02:44Z"}]}