Writing

  Spring is such a special time of year, perhaps, because I am blessed with my own birth during these days so I personally feel an especially potent quality to this time of renewal. This year, on the morning of my birth, I rise early and am at my “sit spot” along Sweetwater stream just […]

Fire has always been the element that seems magical to me. It astounds me that wood of the earth along with air transforms into light and heat and then water douses the flame. What an amazing interchange fire has with the three other foundational elements! The other quality of fire that is unlike the other […]

During these late autumn days when the fruits of our labors have been harvested and the days become shorter we turn toward the west to honor the season of our ancestors through the cross quarter day of Samhain or Hallowmas and the more ancient Day of the Dead. We were blessed to find ourselves about […]

Isn’t it wonderful when you step outside the door and a spring breeze wafts through the air caressing your skin with its warm embrace? In that moment you stand still with your face upturned to the sun and you take a deep breath that becomes an ah-h-h-h. In this subtle but undeniable moment you feel […]

We have felt for some time now a great stirring and know many of you have, as well. Lately, it feels more like a shaking, breaking apart or cracking open. It’s as if the shackles of empirical culture perpetuated by the religious and scientific myths of the past are no longer able to hold us […]

“If you live the life you love, you will receive shelter and blessings. Sometimes the great famine of blessings in and around us derives from the fact that we are not living the life we love; rather, we are living the life that is expected of us. We have fallen out of rhythm with the […]