So, you might not like this…BUT much beauty and truth is bitter sweet You know all those people who have sucked in your life? All those times your heart has been ripped open?  All the raw pain, sorrow, conflict, struggle, abuse, abandonment, neglect, the annoying, seemingly selfish stranger that cuts you off in traffic, the […]

        I am a firm believer in the need to express our selves through various creative modalities.  Our creative capacity is something that flows from the soul, and gets blocked from the critical mind.  Too often we don’t create because we are led to believe that a masterpiece should be made.  Our inner […]

For the majority of human history people have lived in harmony and reverence for the earth.  However, upon development of agriculture and the ages of colonization and industrialization a severance between people and planet arose from man’s intention of domination, control and power.  What was once wild and free became contained, organized and distributed in […]

The month of October has passed and with it the celebration of my 33 birthday.  Every year on my birthday, I reflect on the year past and set intention for the year to come.  As I look back on the last 12 months I see both great progress and great struggle.  Obstacles presented themselves as […]

As the green summer leaves fade like a watercolor into golden ambers and mustards, the old China Berry tree facing the west of my yard begins to shed again.  This is the Earth’s way of telling me October has arrived bearing a season of transition.  With it comes the early set of a resting sun, […]