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The chaos amongst me is but the confusion within me. The more neglected my yard, the more out of balance my inner ecology seems to be. I don’t super love a perfectly manicured landscape as I appreciate the wild wisdom that grows outside the lines of control. Nature is messy, brilliantly adaptive and it is smart and purposeful in its ordering of systems despite the conditioned perception of a colonized mind. However, every now and again I do thin out the congestion…
This week I watched the towering dead China Berry release her brittle-bone branches one by one. The sheer magnitude of her ginormous limbs crashing to the ground at the pull of a chainsaw was both terrifying and astounding, saddening and liberating. In her destruction the thunderous roar announced her decent in a most chilling way. A powerful scream echoing her departure from the sky she once stood magnificently within, pulling wisdom from the moon, life from the sun, strength from the…
I am pleased to have another little piece featured in Elephant Journal. If it inspires you, please share it via your email list and social media platforms. This article is written on behalf of nature. It seems my favorite subjects to write about are psychology, the soul and the natural world....this piece is a delicate combination of them all. Though it doesn't go into a much depth in terms of Eco and Jungian Psychology, it does touch on some basic…
Nature is my soul medicine and now that I have been able to get out of bed these last two months I am loving, more than ever, being in my garden, on mountain tops, under trees and wading along cold creeks. I have had a lot of interesting commentary regarding my diagnosis of cancer. Some people say its bad karma, some say that it was a poor frame of mind, others say I am being punished, but none of these…
