I am so thankful that I get to decide how I’m going to observe the holidays. So many people are at the mercy of family. “You have to come, it’s Thanksgiving/Christmas/birthday/whatever! How can you even think of not showing up for this?” Or litany of your choice, really. We are cajoled, bullied, guilt-tripped, emotionally blackmailed, […]
Oh, we want insight from The Universe, Great Truths and Fundamental Realities, don’t we? We want our fundamental realities to be complicated and big and meaty and secret – but they’re so not that. At all. The best truths are the simplest ones. Shit, even the physicists agree about that! I may have told you […]
An ancient and much sought after recipe (that I just made up): Place the cauldron on a tripod over a medium fire. Preparation time: decades. Cook time: as long as you need. Serves … well, you and everybody around you, to be honest, but let’s just say … five. Take one measure of humility, but […]
In seventh grade they showed us a documentary about what happened in the Nazi concentration camps. I fricking fell out of my chair and fainted in a heap on the floor and had to be carried to the nurse’s office. And my parents were not at all pissed about me being exposed to this violent […]
In the Beginning was the Word – Ogham, or Om, or I Am We will never know for sure and we don’t need to to do what needs doing to tend the Tribe to love everyone to love the Earth to seek the Serpent’s Egg Will you journey with me tonight, oh child of wonder, […]
I remember this day, in 2017 when we woke up into a new national nightmare, thinking, hoping, praying, Maybe it won’t be as bad as we think, maybe he will ease up on this hate he’s playing with and do the job he agreed to do. I remember feeling nauseated, thinking of all the strong […]
I learned over the weekend that another beautiful, struggling young soul couldn’t take anymore and checked out. This isn’t about this one human, it’s about all of our loves who suffer from terminal depression. This time of year can be one big trigger. Not everyone who has depression or anxiety had a horrible childhood. Sometimes […]
iss044e008002_alt (07/02/2015) — Astronaut Scott Kelly posted this picture of the moon taken from the International Space Station with the caption, “Day 97. Good night, Moon. Good night from @Space_Station! #YearInSpace”. Our Daughter, our Sister Our Mother, our Gran Our dearly departed Who is born again Silver Silver, sky treasure Night-born and ancient Youthful perfection […]
Yesterday was the anniversary of the night I fell in love with the Aurora Borealis. It was 1991, I was pregnant with my son, and a friend came pounding on the door in the middle of the night, saying “Get outside! You’ve got to see this!” We threw on coats and ran out the door […]
I lingered under a brilliant canopy This day too perfect This air too alive This energy too delicious To put aside. It’s Halloween, and I’m in the woods, I said, where I belong . . . so . . . I won’t go back to the grinding and the racing and the ordinary. I just […]
