DUMPSTER DIVINING
I’m not actively seeking enlightenment, I am just taking out the trash, but enlightenment comes when it will. The spirit knows what we need, and it finds us.
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Category: Personal Journeys
A Pilgrimage to Find My Mother
“It’s come at last,” she thought, “the time when you can no longer stand between...
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Walking The Crescent Path
Stars that were previously unknown to me appeared. I learned to start a fire, to forage, to make medicine, to grow, preserve, ferment. The image of a bow wielding and often horned goddess accompanied me on long river walks and along dense mountain trails. I found her in the frozen waterfall and the rushing spring river, in the summer fruits and the quiet fall rustlings. Always fierce and bold and strong.
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Already You: A Mother’s Letter
Our job is to raise ourselves upright as half-decent people and self-managing adults. To be honest and reliable. To be patient. To have confidence in ourselves and trust in nearly everyone else. To keep going through the rough patches, with a resilient hope and idiotic optimism that all will be well. To shine light equally on the lilies and the thistles, the flowers and the thorns, the rocks and the mud and the grass that grows every which way in the field without applying a fence or force. To simply be, faithful and true, because that is how our children grow strong in themselves as themselves, lacking nothing, functioning perfectly, the amazing humans they already are.
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Internet Mind
When I focus, dipping into a place of attention and listening so that the house stills around me and I’m fully immersed in creating, there’s always this small, panicky self dashing around in search of a quick fix
Read MoreThe Braided Way
The Braided Way is a framework to see every faith tradition as a strand, braided into a larger whole of spiritual awareness. In the Braided Way, combining spiritual practice from various faiths allow us to explore sacred experience and wonder in forms that resonate with our personal spiritual needs and sacred intuitions. In today’s culture, many people shun religious dogma, but yearn for spiritual connection. The Braided Way allows the ceremonies and practices of multiple faiths to be available without the confinements of cultural dogma.