The Song of Alma*

I was born a harp for the One Mind Never have I wanted more – or less From Iowa’s womb was I birthed In rich black earth was I planted to grow tall and strong Soundbox, pillar, and harmonic cuve carved, shaped and smoothed by delicate and loving fingers But my tuning pegs were hammered […]

Are You Using Your Skills Part 2

I suspected there was going to be a part 2 to the original post, but I needed a minute to get my head around it. Thanks Raech, for letting me “babble” while I thought it through!  Last week, I asked if you were using any of the skills you may have paid good money to […]

Are You Using Your Skills?

So hey, all you lovely folks who have trained in this or that healing modality: Are you using those skills you paid to learn and worked so hard to master? If yes, great. Congratulations, you are a rare individual. If no, welcome to a very, very large club. Let’s talk about it a minute. I’ve been […]

Millions

2 million years seems like an absurdly long time, doesn’t it?  That is the wild-pitch, longest possible length of time that humans, proto-humans, or human-like people have populated this much more ancient planet. When we think of it in terms of us, like “somebody like me,” living, breathing, walking, talking, singing, having babies, hunting, tending […]

Midsummer: The Cool Dual

If you have been following this blog a bit, you will probably have noticed that I’m not a fan of the binary. But Midsummer Solstice is about duality, in the coolest way. I love the Yin-Yang symbol, partly because it’s such a graceful image, but also because of what it represents. There’s no straight line […]

Coherence

The idea of coherence was recently brought gently back into my attention, and it feels like something we all need to be aware of and practice. When two things are in sync, when brainwaves and heartbeats entrain, we call that coherence. Entrainment is when, for example, two clocks started at different times in the same space […]

Spirits of the Land

I may have mentioned recently that I am struggling a little bit with the whole … binary/agrarian imported-mix-and-match-pantheon-of-your-choice Neo-Paganism thing.  It has been bugging me for a really long time, honestly, not just the male-female fertility thing, but honestly  … all of it. Let me see if I can break it down without going full […]

Getting Back To It

After over two years hiatus, I am getting back to an old routine, and I think it’s helping me more than I realize. I am a sporadic journal-writer. I am religious about it for a couple years, and then I just stop with no warning and don’t do it for months or even years at […]

Recharging and Restoring

So, what do we do now?  If you read last week’s post, I introduced the idea that our brains have forgotten how to recharge our energy levels, whether we are introverts or extroverts (and I confirmed that with a couple extrovert friends over the weekend, they’re not getting the recharge, either), and talked about how […]

My Morning with Customer Service

“Hello, Introvert Services, this is Liz, how can I help you?” ‘Hi Liz, I am having trouble initializing my Introvert Recharge and Recovery functions.” “Oh, I’m so sorry to hear that. Let me pull up your account and see what we can do for you. Is this phone number the one you’re registered under?” “Should […]