And when it spills out all over When I was a little girl, joy would sometimes move so strongly within me that I simply had to jump up and down. On such a glorious morning, the world was fresh with dew, wetting my little Keds. We called them sneakers then, and I took full advantage of their…

I remembered just in time… Eight months in, and is this story worth writing? Was this project of committing the thirteen lunations of this calendar year to words a self-indulgent fantasy? The fact that this transit is not fantasy may be lost on most. Has it been lost on me? Have I dropped the thread…

When one is a creature from another place… Unused to torrents of raw emotion often we flail sometimes we fail all the while searching for glowing, never lost knowing. We know what we know. It has always been so. This is not how it is, this is not reality… Will you not look, even if you cannot see? {Anyone…

So where does ‘heart’ live, exactly? Betsy sat, off on her own in the woods, swinging thin sturdy legs from her favorite branch of her favorite tree. The massive silver beech grew just at the crest of the hill that dropped off to the creek bed behind the house. Its roots helped to hold up the…

Red-tail soaring high let me join you in your sky enjoying thermals between storms as society sheds its norms. The more chaotic the world churns the higher the raptors soar. Asking for perspective, my meditation was joined by a lone falcon {one can tell by the wing configuration when they glide…

Moonlight through maples, a new day dawns. First signs of waning on the cusp of a perigee moon. Sparkling bright through branches preparing for the heat blast of another day. Stealthy fox makes her morning rounds., avoiding mama coyote when trails cross and mingle. Self-seeded trees finding room, sharing resources for…

Heralds of a New Way? — What is a cloud dragon day? Forms of air and water coming my way? Air Dragon, bringing clarity of awareness and perception, a sign that new perspective is needed. Lift me into higher currents, Swirling into center. …

When what is known/unknown about ourselves comes to the party. August seems to offer us the Mother of all sorting hats. What if the first steps of any emergence happen in the mirror? I can report that, in a lifetime of inner exploration, this has been so. “That this was a time of deep gestation of what was to come…

First Full Moon of August 2023 What if all distortions, at every level, from the fading reality, were melting? That is how this lunation, the grain moon of the first harvest, feels. From the perspective of inner attention, this is an initiation of creative abundance. The full moon closest to the cross-quarter of Lughnasadh, is traditionally…