Everybody is some kind of healer. Well, maybe not everybody. Every-awakened-body is some kinda healer. Seems to me that humans have put some of our healers on pedestals, or shoved them out to the outskirts, or cloistered them away, either because we’ve been in awe of them, or freaked out by them, or terrified of […]
How are you feeling? Filled with hope and joy and inspiration? Or are you confused and lost and disappointed? If the former, good on you! Go out and spread joy amongst the masses! If the latter, welcome to Spring 2019. Here is your complementary box of tissues. It’s gray and dreary, major cities are flooding, […]
In preparation for my upcoming hysterectomy, I have been getting some healing sessions, and accepting offers of help from friends without any hesitation. Not a single, “Oh, nah, I’m good, it’ll all work out. Don’t go to any trouble.” Nope. I’m all, “Oh, yes please, that would be fantastic! Thank you!” And the World has […]
It’s Earth Day as I write this, and I’m feeling . . . not great about the state of our only planetary home. We have done a great job making it a very toxic place to live. No, really. Think about how many people you know who have cancer right now. Young people. Kids. Old […]
Okay, enough dropping hints and beating around the bush, y’all know there’s something up, you’re not stupid. I had a biopsy of my cervix that revealed pre-cancerous cells. These aren’t going to just heal themselves, different kind of cancer than before. My doctor says when they find this kind of cancer, they just immediately do […]
Murder, mass shootings, children in cages, historic flooding, destruction of cities and farms, death and critical illness . . . How much do we have to take? All. Of. It. We have to take all of it. I know that’s not what you wanted to hear, and I’m sorry because I know that hurts. But […]
LightWorkers and healers often struggle with our own health challenges, but we don’t like to admit it. We think that if we’re not perfectly healthy then why would anyone want to come to us for healing? Truth: Wounded Healers are the most powerful. Our pain and dis-ease make us have more empathy and deeper understanding […]
Every once in a while, I get the “disappointed” look from someone when I tell them I’m not gigging anymore. It’s a look I am intimately familiar with and highly sensitive to. Some people think I gave up out of heartbreak and sadness that I never got my pitcher on the cover of the Rolling […]
Looking out at a world covered in an ice-encrusted blanket of about a foot-and-a-half of snow, it’s hard to imagine Spring is actually happening somewhere under there. But it is. Under there. Very slowly and quietly. If we personify the Earth, call the Material Principle Gaia and the Active Principle Green Man, it can help […]
Photo by Gary Clarke Yesterday, the Family Folk Machine, a multi-generational, non-auditioned choir here in Iowa City that I am so proud and happy to be part of, played a straight-up magical gig. We performed a benefit concert for the local chapter of Veterans For Peace, to help raise money, to quote one of their […]
