How to emancipate myself by leaning into the dark places . . .
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When the Impossible Happens
How does one choose to respond to the impossible happening? What is the wisest response I can muster?
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photos by Courtney Giles
Souls Too Tender
A medicine walk with women from the YWCA's domestic violence shelter — and the teachings they brought to me.
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When the Tribe Gathers . . .
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!!
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Enlightened siblings and a niece and nephew.
Just Keep Keeping On And Grace Might Step In
Evidence that it's possible to come through Family Fog, with a bunch of never giving up and a dash of Grace.
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What The Tree Had To Say
How a short conversation with a White Fir Tree lifted me out of despair over abrupt climate change.
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Letting In The Unthinkable
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.
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We Die Many Times
One perspective on what happens in our psyches in mid-life, and how the wild can help us navigate this time.
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The Wild Calibrates the Inner Compass
How do you know when your inner compass — your sense of what is deeply true for you — is correctly calibrated?
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Looking at My Hair
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?
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Photo by Barbara Seller
Walls, Fear, and Death
First story from my Great Ballcourt Initiation Fast — a story of walls, fear, death . . . and going beyond them all.
Read MoreAdios, Amigos
Cycles of death and dying, both personal and planetary.
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Movement of the Mind
Oh how my mind loves to move!
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Buddha touches the earth, as witness to his Enlightenment.
This Enlightenment Thing
I confess, I really want to realize Enlightenment . . .
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Photo by Ollie Oliver
Family Fog, Part 2
More clues to the mystery of the Family Fog.
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Family Fog, Part 1
Ever notice how people act differently when they're around their family?
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Grief Tending
Grief Tending Ritual, October 2015. A poem.
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The Healing Power of Nature, Community and the Sacred
A medicine day walk with women from the YWCA's Domestic Violence Shelter sheds new light on the healing power of nature, community and the sacred.
Read MoreThe Man of Awakened Heart
What is a Man of Awakened Heart? A most delightsome creature . . .
Read MoreAdam Ondra Changed My Life
How a 22-year-old Czechoslovakian fellow (who happens to be one of the best sport climbers in the world) changed my life.
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