While walking through the woods with friends on New Year’s Day, the topic of Pookaride came up. It has been several years since I have written on the blog. My life has been full of many things, and thankfully, cancering has not been one of them. However, The World has experienced a collective ride on…
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Self Care as a Team Sport
Nurture Practices VS Self Soothing Strategies There is a time and a place for all. What do you choose to do now? Self-love, and by extension self-care, is on one end of a continuum, on the other end is self loathing. At any time we might be moving towards one end or the other, sometimes…
Red Tent Project
This is a page about a project I have been working on in my studio to celebrate the divine feminine in my life. Here is a story of the Maiden, Mother and Crone I once entered a dark realm where I looked death in the face. I was stripped of everything that I thought made…
Reweaving my Life: unraveling, deconstructing & reimagining
In addition to whatever else I may be, I am a weaver. String and me go way back. It started when my wonderful Aunt Phyllis helped me weave a green rag rug on her floor loom when I was seven years old. Which later set me up for the work study job I got while pursuing…
Death Defying Acts, or Why I Blog.
There are many realms and layers of influence, the places where our lives intersect intimately with others. Any way you categorize life there are crossroads with other souls. Work, friendships, and these days the vast interwoven web of the world are all places of connection. This can be especially true around important life changing events….
A tool we need for the task at hand.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the impact of kind regards in my life. Specifically as it applies to health and happiness. It dawned on me that our thoughts for and about each other create some sort of force field, the Vibe-O-Sphere if you will. In a healthy Vibe-O-Sphere the community of folks trust each…
Busy-Body
You know the stereo type of the Busy Body? You know the one who is in everyone else’s business? Probably criticizing others while being blind to their own limitations? Well I am turning into one lately. Yep. It all started with what seemed like a really good thing. And then another really good thing. And…
Body as Enemy – Body as Ally
Some of my best thinking happens in the shower. The warm water and steam seem to open up my mind to possibilities that otherwise wouldn’t occur to me. The other morning it was a question: Am I being an ally to my body or am I my own worst enemy? This led to more questions….
Pete Rose Rooster and Gilda Chicken are Dead.
An open letter to the human companion of the dog who killed our chicken. In the last days of 2016, I came home after work to a flurry of feathers overlaying the grass at the curb. There were feathers even more numerously covering the stairs up to the house. I knew we had lost another chicken, but…
Good Bye 2016 -Will Auld Acquaintance be Forgot?
What a year. What a wild transformative journey 2016 has been for us all collectively. Even now people in New Zealand and Australia have already passed the threshold into 2017, a threshold that is moving across the globe as we speak. As we look back and look forward we have two tales to tell ourselves….
Stopping the Black Snake with Prayer & Discipline
2017 Update: Because this page continues to get traffic it requires an update. President Trump allowed the pipeline to continue, and authorized additional brutality against the water protectors as soon as he took office. There is still active resistance to this even though the camp was shut down. There have been some successes in the…
Riding the Pooka 