Grandmother Taught Me How to Make Healing Tinctures
We’d sit as quiet as clouds, chattering about this or that or about absolutely nothing at all, while making tinctures from medicinal plants
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String Theory
You’re slowly beginning to realize with utter astonishment tinged with embarrassment that your entire life has been refracted through grace.
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The Geography of Silence: A Saffron Crucible
I came upon a chasm near a hidden waterfall. The ground was slick with moss and spray. As I attempted to cross, my foot slipped. For a heartbeat, I hovered over a thirty-foot drop into a pit of churning darkness and deep water.
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Do Animals Pray? What the Wild Teaches Us About Being Fully Alive
That’s the lesson I’m learning in midlife: not to romanticize nature, but to see it whole, and still choose reverence.
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Raised by Silence
The women in my neighborhood had remedies for everything: tea for heartbreak, a leaf for fever, a whispered prayer for fear. Plants hung on windowsills, candles burned near photographs, and eucalyptus scented the kitchen air.
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.