by Anne Peek | Oct 19, 2025 | affinity, aging, artistic expression, childhood, connection, creativity, gratitude, growth, harmony, heart, joy, life-giving, listening, lists, memoir, memories and mementos, music, nature, play, self-reflection, singing, soul, spirit, surprise, Uncategorized, values, wonder
I’ve just finished putting together the Soundtrack of My Life. Not a survey of music that was popular during various eras I have lived through. Not simply songs I’ve loved. This is a list of songs that at different times resonated deeply with me, that persisted, or...
by Anne Peek | 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...
by Anne Peek | May 9, 2024 | affinity, body wisdom, childhood, connection, crying, earth, expansion, heart, home, intuition, joy, life-giving, listening, magic, memoir, mystery, nature, possibilities, senses, spirit, stories, surprise, tears, transformation, Uncategorized, vulnerability, wonder
Have you ever been two people at once—two people in one place in two different times simultaneously? Not just in your mind, but in your body? Once this happened to me. January 2010, Kona, Hawaii. I remember the soft bluish green tide pool extending around and below...
by Anne Peek | Apr 8, 2024 | affinity, beauty, body wisdom, breath, connection, earth, expansion, gardens, harmony, heart, home, hope, joy, life-giving, light, memoir, modern life, nature, rejuvenation, seasons, senses, spirit, spring, surprise, tenderness, Uncategorized, wonder
Steel blue door, sealed to cozy us mammals within opens with a deep sigh—SWOOSH— a startle of cold, a brilliant white shout, singing in the sun amid patchy dirt and bedraggled stalks—the fist crocus! Grinning, chest suddenly warm with fluttering, I make my way down...
by Anne Peek | Mar 12, 2024 | affinity, ambiguity, archetypes, balance, body wisdom, connection, counterculture, earth, expansion, freedom, growth, harmony, heart, hope, imagination, intuition, joy, life-giving, light, listening, magic, memoir, mind, modern life, mystery, possibilities, rejuvenation, resistance, self-care, self-reflection, senses, soul, spirit, stories, surprise, tears, transformation, wonder
In times like these, it’s easy to give in to despair and hopelessness. In addition to witnessing and speaking out against all that is heartbreaking and unjust, maybe we also need to share experiences that contradict the cultural story, foster hope, and reveal the...
by Anne Peek | Nov 14, 2023 | affinity, animals, artistic expression, balance, beauty, breath, communication, connection, creativity, darkness, dreams, earth, expansion, heart, hope, imagination, intuition, life-giving, light, listening, memoir, messages, modern life, mystery, nature, overwhelm, possibilities, rejuvenation, shadow, spirit, stories, surprise, transformation, vision, war, women, wonder
In the last few weeks I’ve come across a surprising amount of fascinating information: —a story about how bison on ancestral lands made discoveries that fulfilled an ancient prophecy; —research documenting how dying people in hospice care often experience dreams and...