One of my defining quests is the longing for each moment to be infused with a dynamic relationship with the earth. Personally it would feel like being deeply at home, with the aliveness that I feel when I’ve had a chance to immerse myself in wildness. Collectively this would look Read more…
“Fashion is more powerful than love.†This was how my daughter tried to provoke a silly argument with me. At her suggestion we’d been drawing pictures of ourselves in armor. I’d rebelled against the prompt in my own way, depicting myself with pens in my pocket, a book and phone Read more…
Judy is a regular member of the Healing Waters Qigong practice group and she likes to read books and enjoy her retirement. Lately her yoga practice has been leaving her too energized to curl up on the couch and instead she’s shoveling not just for herself but for her neighbors Read more…
You may have noticed that “in-the-bones†understanding is a favorite phrase of mine. Intellectual knowledge gradually seeps into my body. As knowledge penetrates “the bones†it becomes spiritual understanding. And like our skeleton, this spiritual understanding creates a structure that can support our whole lives. One of my healing clients Read more…
Some of the biggest laughs I had this summer were at Donald Giovanni in Cornlandia. This operetta was an election-flavored spin of Mozart’s Don Giovanni created by Mixed Precipitation. My hysterical reaction was in part due to the fact that the US Presidential election is so painful if I don’t Read more…
I recently returned from a week visiting my family, including my mother-in-law who is in a lot of pain from ovarian cancer. I’m both deeply fulfilled and very tired. I’ve seen a lot of people around me needing to suddenly drop everything and be with some significant challenge. The death Read more…
“Is it all going to be okay?†So many of us unconsciously carry this question with us as we open the refrigerator, listen to the news, shop, or worry over our loved ones. When bigger challenges come our way it’s even harder to see how things are going to work Read more…
Some days just throw you around, as if they were somehow set on “agitate.†I don’t live inside a washing machine, but it can feel that way. Life is complicated and then the unexpected throws us for a loop: illnesses, computer crashes, theft, car accidents, injustice or simply the burnt Read more…
Holy sewing project! I’m emerging from the largest sewing project I’ve yet tackled in my life. Whew! Now I’ve got three sets of skirts, aprons, ornate headdresses, sashes, and blouses (a preview of them in the picture). All my life kind of went on hold there for a moment while Read more…
Hello, beautiful being of the universe. I feel awe that every atom in your body was created in an ancient star. I am in awe as the water that makes up more than 50% of your body is continually refreshed and exchanged with the watershed around you. I am in Read more…