Welcoming a New Day, New Year, New Perspective
I’m looking out at the back yard. The fox was here this morning, looking as though he’d spent the night. Five deer. Squirrels running around. 23 degrees. Birds combing the frozen mud. Winter has...
View ArticleNew Old Wisdom
As I read Jamie Sams’ The Thirteen Original Clan Mothers, I feel a reverence for the journey I’m on. It’s deeply validating to see things I have felt from the beginning, echoed in these pages. The...
View ArticleAnother Awakening
I was supposed to be at a training this past weekend. Saturday, Day 3, would have found me exhausted and dreading the final day, ending 4 days of work, late Sunday afternoon. Then I would go into a...
View ArticleShift
There’s a place tight little hidden balled up somewhere That’s known terror degradation hunger loneliness That can’t deeply rest digest sleep play Watches the fight for power greedy growth ignoring the...
View ArticleBloom
“What’s it like to bloom?” I asked Buttercup She stood silent radiant unapologetic Not trying to be Daffodil, or Dandelion No apparent wish to be Rose, or Daisy Not seeming worried about threats of...
View ArticleSweeping Habits
There is a black walnut tree that lives just over the edge of the property line, that makes quite a mess, nearly year round, dropping leaves and nuts and branches and bark. This would not be a real...
View ArticleLearning to Walk Again
It’s quite a thing to try to relearn a whole way of being. To change from walking always focused outward, in anticipation of pain, and then intensely focused inward, reeling from every injury. It’s...
View ArticleWaiting For My Real Life…
It sure does take awhile to shift to living from a life of surviving, pretending, and waiting for things to get better. When it’s finally time to land in the doing and living of life, it can suddenly...
View ArticleWishing you Depth for 2023
It’s been a strange couple of months, with much geysering of emotions, memories (my own, and pretty much everyone else, too, from what I’m hearing), and watching myself be in old patterns and feeling...
View ArticleI Couldn’t See What I Couldn’t See
The journey goes to such unexpected places. Everything old is new again. Just like legwarmers – ugh. I have organically come around, again, to the idea of safety in the present moment. With new...
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