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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spaciousness of Being, activation of purpose
The spaciousness of your being is like the space within a bell – it is what enables you to attune to the world. Such attunement is very different from sitting in your head and noticing the world ‘out there’. Attunement enables the world to be also felt ‘in here’ – in the empty resonance of your being.
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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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The Road to Presence
Through writing and reading, I didn’t reject the news or run away from it. Instead, I found tools for processing it without despair. I found a way to coexist with the unfolding tragedy and find hope and compassion within its midst. Such is the gift of poetry and presence.
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The Great Friend
There are times in our lives when even our most precious beliefs and realizations fall apart and dissolve in front of our very eyes. What was so clear only days or weeks ago is transformed to dust….
It’s tempting to conclude that something has gone wrong, some great cosmic error or mistake has occurred, we have failed, or we’ve been forsaken.
But this reassembling of our world is a sacred process
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.