Bubbles are bursting everywhere . . . what happens when we no longer are living in our fragile shells of illusion?
A Colorado visit that brought the gift of deep listening . . . could world leaders benefit from a stroll along the Uncompahgre?
What is the mechanism of change needed to shift from a consuming, fear-based culture to a cooperative, love-based culture?
The most beautiful prayer for men I have ever heard, by my friend in Vancouver, Elisa Lee. I'm honored to publish this November guest blog . . . may it be read by many, many men.
Grieving for a Loved One . . . Our Lady of the Holy Trinity Abbey in Huntsville, Utah will close for good on the first day of this coming September.
Another fabulous guest blog: this one by the amazing and brilliant Wendy Lee, City Energy Project Advisor in the Department of Sustainability, Salt Lake City Corporation. Wendy write about the gap between knowing we should do all that sustainable stuff like recycle, etc., and actually doing it as a habit in our every day lives . . . and what it takes to bridge that gap.
A guest blog by a wonderful friend and seriously good writer, Dawn Marano — about the whisperings she hears in Pine Island, Florida and how somehow she knows she has come home. Thanks Dawn!!
Expanding one's view of altered states, and new understandings of why it's actually a powerful urge to practice well.
How does one choose to respond to the impossible happening? What is the wisest response I can muster?
A medicine walk with women from the YWCA's domestic violence shelter — and the teachings they brought to me.
I'm an introvert, so often being with people can take energy. But I have been very lucky to find a community that actually does nourish me, does help me grow in leaps and bounds. I know this way of being together is possible for all of humanity — it's something we learn together!!
Evidence that it's possible to come through Family Fog, with a bunch of never giving up and a dash of Grace.
How a short conversation with a White Fir Tree lifted me out of despair over abrupt climate change.
Another turning point in assimilating the magnitude of the changes we possibly are facing as a human race in the relatively new future, and how it seems the only way beyond a rock and a hard place is transcendening beyond one's present reality.
One perspective on what happens in our psyches in mid-life, and how the wild can help us navigate this time.
How do you know when your inner compass — your sense of what is deeply true for you — is correctly calibrated?
Looking at my hair, on a rainy Friday afternoon. Someday it will all be grey, but it isn't yet. How to be with things that you know will pass?
First story from my Great Ballcourt Initiation Fast — a story of walls, fear, death . . . and going beyond them all.
New Moon Blog
Here you will find my musings on the mythos and mysteries of inner human experience, and the many ways in which we need wild nature for our wholeness.
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Calendar of Trips
Some expanded meanings of "Medicine"