by JoAnne Dodgson | Apr 21, 2024 | Blog
A flowing river of Elk leapt over a barbed wire fence. Awed by the sight, I pulled my car to the side of the road and rolled down my window to listen and watch. The herd was made up of at least one hundred elk, a multi-generational group, still adorned with thick...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Apr 1, 2024 | Blog
Elders say the wheel of life is turning in the direction of regeneration, a time to re-seed our inner landscapes and physical world with love, harmony, and balance. The out-of-balance ways are coming undone and falling apart. We are standing in a threshold between...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Mar 1, 2024 | Blog
In the threshold between our earth’s seasons, we gather the gifts of what is and has been while moving with the momentum of change. Each step we take, every choice we make, each thought we think and word that we speak, shapes what’s coming alive in our...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Jan 1, 2024 | Blog
Today I saw a butterflyher blue speckled wingsglistened in the sunlightthe magic of her metamorphosisdanced around in the winds She flew over the sagebrushand landed on red sandy soilresting awhileopening and closing her wingsa silent rhythmic drumbeatsending wave...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Dec 19, 2023 | Blog
Solstice, Equinox, and New Moon are my cherished holidays. I’m drawn toward these transitional passages, awed by their essential part in creation, curious about the purposes and effects of such vast and ancient natural cycles. The shifting of seasons, the...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Nov 24, 2023 | Blog
I’m heading west on a roadtrip to visit an Elephant Sanctuary. For years, I’ve told friends I might leave everything behind and go to Africa and live with the elephants! Though I haven’t made that leap, elephants have taken up residence in my heart....
by JoAnne Dodgson | Nov 1, 2023 | Blog
We are in between Equinox and Solstice, a passage between seasons, a transitional space that bridges what has been with what is coming into being. There are diverse cultural traditions that mark this transitional time with ceremonies and celebrations,...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Oct 1, 2023 | Blog
“I don’t think I can do it,” I whispered, tears stuck in my throat. Jaguar stirred, yawning and stretching. She leaned over the tree branch, glancing toward me. “Can’t do what?” she asked. “I don’t think I can...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Sep 6, 2023 | Blog
What would it be like to have a world of relationships free of judgments, hierarchies, and fears? Soak in the medicines, the gifts shared in our ceremony, about weaving relationships with regard for everyone’s well-being, with collaboration, love, spaciousness...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Aug 25, 2023 | Blog
This is the Bridge Time, according to the elders. The out of balance, unsustainable, upside down world is taking itself apart. Bridge Time is a passage between worlds. We are standing in the midst of flowing rivers of change. How will we get across to the other...
