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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…
Happy Spring 2016!! As the China berries fall to the ground it opens up a space for delicate purple buds to adorn the brittle branches while green canopies shade the yard inviting long sits and sacred hammock time, my yard and its treasures a temple in which I come to find kinship, communion and empathy for the world that sustains me. One of my favorite parts of this time of year is when the earth begins to unfold hidden gems…
I must have been about 7 and it was my first sleep over. Being a socially awkward child, I was freakishly nervous and cautiously insecure. I was also quite intrigued about the potential bonding that occurs between a young gaggle of girls. Little did I know it would be the introduction to a world of playful incantations and magic. Did you ever play the game Light as a Feather? One daring child lays on the ground, encircled by her clan,…
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…
