A Search for Home

by | Mar 5, 2019 | affinity, ambiguity, balance, body wisdom, conflict, connection, earth, freedom, growth, harmony, heart, home, intuition, joy, life-giving, nature, planning, possibilities, rejuvenation, self-care, senses, soul, Uncategorized, wildness

I’ve been thinking about home.  And the longing for home. For a long time I have wanted to move, probably out of Minnesota, but when I think about where to go, I get muddled. Because I think there might be several kinds of home, and mine pull me in different...

Looking and Not Talking

by | Jan 7, 2019 | affinity, artistic expression, balance, beauty, body wisdom, breath, communication, connection, creativity, harmony, heart, imagination, life-giving, listening, mind, modern life, nature, possibilities, rejuvenation, self-care, senses, silence, solitude, spirit, Uncategorized, vision, vulnerability, words, writing

  I’m hanging in a wordless space, even as I write these words. Recently home from a family trip on the Oregon coast for the holidays, I’m savoring all I saw and heard there: my family, of course; and also blustery winds and rain; thundering waves; squawking...

Gift from a Horse

by | Jun 13, 2018 | affinity, animals, body wisdom, breath, clearing, communication, connection, crying, growth, harmony, heart, joy, life-giving, listening, messages, possibilities, self-care, senses, spirit, surprise, tears, transformation, Uncategorized, vulnerability

Nearly three weeks ago I went to a daylong personal growth workshop with horses. Because horses are powerful, gentle and extremely sensitive they are used for confidence building with special needs adults and children, in leadership training and team building and in...

Spinning My Wheels

by | Apr 14, 2018 | balance, beauty, body wisdom, breath, conflict, connection, cranky, darkness, earth, growth, grumpy, harmony, hope, joy, nature, poetry, possibilities, resistance, seasons, self-care, senses, shoulds, spring, writing

I want to post a blog touching on one of my usual themes—wonder, creativity, humor—but today those feel a little scarce. Well, I do feel wonder as I sit today in this blizzard, the worst I’ve seen in many years.  And in mid-April yet. I know a few of you are living...

Don’t Bore the Gods!

by | Feb 14, 2018 | artistic expression, clearing, conflict, connection, cranky, creativity, foolish, freedom, growth, harmony, heart, hope, inner critic, life-giving, light, listening, magic, messages, possibilities, rejuvenation, self-care, shoulds, spirit, stories, transformation, vision

I had a humbling Aha! moment the other day. Humbling but also freeing. Tom and I have been reading a series of young adult novels, The Lost Years of Merlin. The five book series, which imagine Merlin from about age 9 to adulthood, are fun, full of enchanted forests,...

Deer Delight

by | Aug 30, 2016 | affinity, amusement, animals, babies, body wisdom, childhood, communication, connection, earth, harmony, joy, laughter, life-giving, light, listening, magic, nature, play, senses, wildness, wonder

For some time now I’ve been working on living more playfully (the irony of this is not lost on me). A frolicking fawn and her mother reminded me recently how it’s done. As I mentioned in my last newsletter, I gathered with a group of wonderful women a few weeks ago at...