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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...
Embracing Our Holy, Imperfect, Astounding Resilience
At first glance, my closest women friends and I appear to be confident and worldly women; women who enjoy the privilege of education and opportunity; spiritual women whose natural orientation is to love and service. One of us recently produced a brilliant documentary...
“Nobody is Watching”— Beyond the Seduction of Significance
One morning last summer, in my first moments upon waking, I heard three potent words reverberating in my awareness: “Nobody is watching.” These words struck a chord of deep resonance in my heart. I gasped. I felt such divine relief. Oh my goodness—nobody is watching!...
Post-Millenials on The Way to School
This morning as we drove the short distance to my son Ezra’s school, my daughter Arayla (14) asked, “Is it true about the rumors, Mom? The ones that say we could have World War III in 2020?” Her stark words reverberated painfully inside our car. I was quiet, noticing...
Ezra’s Tiger Medicine Dream
A couple of mornings ago I woke up in a funk of my own grumpiness. A sinus headache I’d had for a few days was proving difficult to shake off. A cold winter greyness was pouring in from the outside, and I sensed in my heart a definite hint of the blues. I was finding...