by Jesua | May 4, 2020 | Blog
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...
by Jesua | Apr 16, 2020 | Blog
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...
by Jesua | Apr 10, 2020 | Blog
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...
by Jesua | Mar 24, 2020 | Blog, Featured 2
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...
by Jesua | Mar 13, 2020 | Blog
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...
by Jesua | Mar 6, 2020 | Blog
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...