by JoAnne Dodgson | Nov 1, 2020 | Blog
Your dreams hold the pictures, the guiding maps, the energetic knowing of what you are seeking to bring to life. Your dreams are blueprints, like the knowledge carried inside a seed. Even though the tree isn’t in physical form yet, the tiny body of the seed carries...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Oct 13, 2020 | Blog
Ka Ta See is an ancestral lineage, a way of living, which deeply respects the power of words. In this medicine-storytelling tradition, words and stories are used purposefully as medicine. Our inner thoughts and the words we speak and write have influences and effects....
by JoAnne Dodgson | Oct 1, 2020 | Blog
I’ve been clearing a patch of land where there’s a burly overgrowth of dried Tumbleweeds. My harvesting wardrobe includes thick leather gloves and toeless socks pulled over my arms to prevent painful encounters with the prickly thorns. I’ve been...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Sep 12, 2020 | Blog
During our quarantining, may this story bring you some medicine… My wild-harvesting quest carried me across state lines into the mountains of southern Colorado. Instinctively, I headed toward the red rocks which hold stories of the peoples who lived there in...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Sep 1, 2020 | Blog
Taking baby steps. When these words are spoken to describe a process of making change, there tends to be a hint of judgment. The “smallness” needs justification. It’s a disclaimer, of sorts. As though the steps and the step-taker aren’t quite enough. As if the...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Aug 10, 2020 | Blog
On my morning bike ride, I noticed people walking toward me with a few dogs on leashes. In their exuberant explorations, the dogs were romping around roadside to roadside. As we neared each other, we began navigating the crossing of our paths. The women corralled...
