The Place of Caught Breath

by | Dec 18, 2025 | affinity, balance, beauty, breath, connection, darkness, death, dreams, earth, expansion, growth, harmony, heart, holidays, hope, imagination, life-giving, light, modern life, nature, noise, possibilities, rejuvenation, seasons, self-care, self-reflection, soul, vision, winter solstice, wonder

Here we are at a cosmic portal: the dark of the moon,  at the darkest time of the year,  about to embark on the longest night.    And the darkness around us on the world scene is deep, as deep as most of us have seen in our lifetime.   Yet, we also know...

Playing With Numbers

by | Jun 24, 2025 | affinity, amusement, artistic expression, balance, communication, connection, creativity, darkness, death, expansion, foolish, freedom, gratitude, harmony, heart, hope, imagination, joy, laughter, life-giving, light, modern life, nature, play, poetry, possibilities, practice, rejuvenation, resistance, self-care, spirit, Uncategorized, wonder, words

I believe that when we create, no matter what it is—a meal, a song, a garden, an altar space, a drawing, a knitted scarf, a haiku—we align with, and amplify, the creative life/love energy of our planet. Especially when our creation also feeds our wonder,...

Generations and Generations and Generations

by | May 23, 2025 | affinity, anger, archetypes, balance, clearing, communication, conflict, connection, crying, death, dreams, gratitude, heart, hope, imagination, intuition, listening, modern life, mystery, self-reflection, senses, shadow, soul, spirit, surprise, tears, tenderness, transformation, Uncategorized, values, vision, vulnerability, war

For more than 150 years Memorial Day has been a special time to honor the dead, particularly those who died in war. Though it’s not just those who die who suffer in war. The energy of war is everywhere–not just in declared wars, but in the anger and...

A Tribute

by | Oct 31, 2024 | affinity, aging, autumn, beauty, childhood, clearing, communication, connection, death, earth, harmony, heart, home, imagination, life-giving, memoir, mystery, nature, possibilities, seasons, spirit, stories, surprise, tenderness, wildness, wonder

In this bittersweet season of colorful leaves, dying and letting go, I am moved to tell you a little story. My childhood home on Grey Cloud Island was in the country, on an acre-and-a-half lot. There were many trees on the property—in high school I did a biology...

Eclipse and War

by | Oct 14, 2023 | balance, conflict, connection, darkness, death, earth, expansion, growth, harmony, heart, hope, imagination, light, modern life, overwhelm, possibilities, shadow, tears, transformation, values, vision, war

So much war energy everywhere now—not just in countries with long histories of conflict, but also wars on virtually every front: about our relationship with the earth; about how, and whose responsibility it is, to feed, house and care for each other; about who has...

Generations and Generations and Generations

by | May 29, 2022 | affinity, anger, archetypes, balance, clearing, communication, conflict, connection, crying, death, dreams, gratitude, heart, hope, imagination, intuition, listening, modern life, mystery, self-reflection, senses, shadow, soul, spirit, surprise, tears, tenderness, transformation, Uncategorized, values, vision, vulnerability, war

For more than 150 years Memorial Day has been a special time to honor the dead, particularly those who died in war. Though it’s not just those who die who suffer in war. The energy of war is everywhere–not just in declared wars, but in the anger and...