If you are interested in keeping up with my continued writing and other related project, please join me here. I will remain grateful for the opportunity to blog through this site. Since my work that this blog has been part of has grown, I find that I need a new home for it that can encompass all of its different aspects ..read more

In the time of pears We poured the water Flour makes a paste Dancing and jumping Excitement of youth A new thing to touch Two sets of hands now Squish and twist the dough Kitchen full of smells In the afternoon We pulled out the bread Hot with rising steam Rye is generous It opens a door A passage of earth In a time of joy We followed butter Tunnel of flavor Our guide is laughing Fish and bears are here Silver pool’s edges Deep in the cave-home We added apples Raisins help them float In the time of school Questions for the jar When will you finish? The silence of caves Hard ..read more

I am a child from nowhere, a long string of wandering ancestors trailing behind me Some forced from their native homes long ago, some more recently By war or economy — conquered, defeated, starved, persecuted They carried their wounds with them where ever they went And as is the cycle common in abuse without healing, they turned from victim to oppressor For years, I have asked myself: where do I belong? When one’s spirituality is a spirituality of the land, but the land doesn’t belong to you? Ancestors who stole the land, who killed and enslaved and pillaged And here I am, a child from nowhere ..read more

Black has wings Today on the hill Five times a presence Around the gray stone Cawing into flight At the sound of my feet Blue hiding Today a day off One expanse not seen Still present in eyes Awaiting a gift The mystery revealed Red a speck Today at the side Four ways to go home Remember the night A river of mud Consumed the low path Gold is small Today on my hand Thirteen reflections All of them gentle Smoothed by the morning From a sky full of clouds Green waiting Today in the park Uncountable leaves Reaching for the mist Maybe some raindrops To end the months of dry Colo ..read more

I never thought, as a child That I’d spend my 40s Responding to mass shootings With making tea and coffee cake Staring out the window at the mountains But here we are Our nation has thoroughly descended into stochastic terrorism Our government’s leaders are profiting off Others’ deaths and Emboldening the worst In human nature I’m grateful for tea For the quiet foothills For coyote song last night that brought me Back from the depression I would have felt in my 20s Whether right or wrong I’m grateful for 20 years of meditation That helps me to breathe in this suffering And l ..read more

I heard a story once about a child trapped in a basement. It was told to me by many different mouths over the course of a number of years. In the story, the child is shut away down there, screaming themself horse because they are terrified and alone. The world for them is dark and scary and they lash out at it from the fight-or-flight place that gives tremendous energy for quick action, but isn’t always know for the best judgement. After all, in this story the child has been living down there in isolation for their whole life. It is really no wonder they are angry. They have lost their ability ..read more

I come before you in love and service, and ask… Brighid, help me to feel the flame of your inspiration and the nourishing water of your healing Lugh, help me to build my skills and serve my community well Morrigan, Great Queen, give me courage to act and the discernment to know what is right action in these dark times Rhiannon, bless the horses in my care and help me to cultivate their grace and nobility in myself Cernunnos, help me to know my wild soul and to feel deep love for the wild things of the earth Elen of the Ways, help me to safely tread the wild paths to the Otherworld and back aga ..read more

I often discuss spirituality with others who are interested in it because it is a meaningful topic to me. I am also frequently involved in group situations where people are coming together for a ritual, a class, a meal, or another action of some type where we align our energies for a common purpose. In all of these contexts, and in online groups and forums, it is common to give blessings to one another, to the group, or to the action being undertaken. These well wishes take many forms, and most of them appear to me intuitively as innocuous at worst and actively beneficial most of the time. How ..read more

There is no denying it any longer. Women are under siege. Not only are we being murdered daily by the men in our lives, not only are we and our children living in situations of domestic violence, not only are our rapists not being held accountable, not only are we not believed when we have the courage to report their crimes, not only do we have to spend every moment we are alone – on the street or walking a trail or returning to our cars in parking lots or meeting someone for the first time on a date or just being in our own homes – fearful that someone will harm us, but now our g ..read more

There is so little time In a life for Love   I am not distracted And forgetful I see   Things are not rushing By me unnoticed I hear   I am running and dancing As much as I can   Yet still there is so little Time here between The stars   Such a small pile of Moments to hold a Warm hand   So few are the droplets Falling gently on My face   Small are the number of Grass blades to Lie on   How precious the touches Of feet and The Earth   So short are the days I remember with This body   I try not to waste them   There is so little time In a life for Love ..read more