Spring traditions keep me going through our fickle spring. We got ice cream when ice left the lake. Loons have called from the newly open lake on their brief layover before heading north. I’m back on my bike. I hardly recognized my neighbor’s toddler since he grew so much during Read more…
Today marks the beginning of the springtime celebration season for Wisdom Dances. It is St. Lazarus Day today, and on this day in Bulgaria girls are dancing through their communities to bestow blessings. This is one of many traditions from the region of the Balkans, Greece, and Anatolia that take Read more…
Something new is cooking. It’s a continuation of a guiding mission to kindle a vibrant connection to nature, our bodies, and the Mystery. The pursuit of this aliveness has shaped my spiritual journey. For a while I was simply leaving anything that felt dead – and I have left just Read more…
This Saturday is one of my favorite spring time traditions – the Wisdom Dances Earth Day Celebration. Our community of dancers will dance and sing throughout the Cities to participate in activating the energies of spring. We will be dancing at the crossroads. This is literal and figurative. Our inspiration Read more…
Hello beautiful soul! Happy Interdependence Day! Yes, let’s just re-brand Independence Day. Perhaps because July 4th is my parent’s wedding anniversary, July 4th has always been about being in relationship. I wonder what our communities would be like if we put as much energy into celebrating our interdependence as our Read more…
The almost-but-not-quite feeling of the earth preparing for spring is tantalizing. Are you noticing it? We can all sense that there is a light at the end of the tunnel – Spring! Vaccines! – but it is not here yet. The waiting can feel so frustrating. This can also be Read more…
Dear one, What an extraordinary year! Thank you for being a part of it! I’m so glad to share the pursuit of deep transformation with you. Being in community with you as readers or participants in my classes has been such a powerful source of grounding and connection. We’ve seen Read more…
This will be a significant week for all of us. In the words of my daughter, “The great day of ugh†is Tuesday. In addition to making your voting plan, I hope that you are also putting together your self-care plan. All of us are going to have to bear Read more…
The mood surrounding the coming election is reminding me how it felt to anticipate major surgery. It was this time of year, eleven years ago that, team of top surgeons from the Mayo Clinic would be removing a tumor that surrounded nerves and arteries at the base of my neck. Read more…
Almost every Sunday morning my daughter groans and asks us, again, “Why are we going to church?†Sometimes we skip church and attend an indigenous-led water ceremony by the Mississippi. Then the question is “Why do we have to go to the river?†My daughter is questioning like kids do, Read more…