Blog
Musings on True Silence and White Silence
I can feel something wishing to be written from my heart to the world, but I don’t yet know what it is. Even to write this sentence requires some mysterious leap of faith. I have felt so quieted by these times, so continuously floored and stilled at the heart of the...
Leaning Towards Zero
This time of quarantine has provided a powerful space for inner reckoning. I don’t know about you, but for me this has been a deeply stilling, provocative and annihilating time. Most moments, I find myself surprisingly speechless. Less words, more presence,...
Radical Mercy
This last week has been downright grueling in moments, here in my privileged life, in my beautiful, safe home, with more than enough food in the fridge, in gorgeous springtime, quarantined with these beloved children I brought into the world. I know there are so many...
Musings from the Chrysalis
My friends, I’m so sensitive, as I imagine you are, to this profound time of collective stopping. What a remarkable pausing in multi-layered uncertainty. How is it for you, I wonder? It’s been a confrontational time for me, personally. An edgy and earthy time. I feel...
Dialogues from Quarantine~ “Carried On The Wind”
Last evening at dusk, my son Ezra and I took our dog Freya for a walk through our neighborhood. It’s early Spring now, week 4 of Shelter-in-Place, and everywhere we look trees are blossoming. I was walking with Freya on-leash, while Ezra rode his bike slowly...
“You Signed.” ~ A Near-Death Love Story, about Life Contracts & Second Chances
The summer I was nineteen, I had a close encounter with death. I was entering my junior year at Sarah Lawrence College in New York, and had decided to spend my summer in the remote coastal village of Mendocino, California. My tiny, rustic studio cottage was only a...
Embracing the Unwelcome Guest of Uncertainty
If you’re anything like I am, then lately there are moments of simple clarity and presence, alongside other moments of feeling consumed and concerned by this rapidly accelerating, multi-layered mayhem. There are moments of deep breath, and moments of trembling. These...
Taking Our True Seat
For a long time I’ve held the phrase “Taking our True Seat” as a celebration of realized sovereignty and inherent inner majesty; a joyous self-claiming. To sit firmly, kindly and elegantly within oneself, allowing all subtle striving and habitual movement outwards to...
The Pleasure of Stopping~ A Simple, Daily Way to Tend to Our Mental Health
The Pleasure of Stopping ~ A Simple, Daily Way to Tend to Our Mental Heath. In this video I feel inspired to intimately share with you a way I have been tending to my own *mental health* in these wild times of personal and global uncertainty. This video is perhaps...
Righteous Self-Love is Worth Aging For!
A dear Sister asked me recently where I currently, personally stand as a single woman in my forties on the topic of welcoming relational union into my life. I thought it could be fun and useful to share my thoughts here. I absolutely love conscious partnership and...