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!… Read full article…
Writing from the Heart
Tending Your Heart
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… Read full article…
Comfort Zones: Jaguar Medicine
“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… Read full article…
Building New Relationships (video)
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… Read full article…
Bridge People
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… Read full article…
Love That Has No Bounds: Vulture Medicine (video)
Soak in the medicines and doctoring from the spirits, a clip from our Throwing the Bones Ceremony, August Full Moon Gathering… Read full article…
Walking Where Ravens Fly
Jasmine bounded ahead, tracking scented trails invisible to my human eyes and ears and nose. Fully in the adventure of her four-legged aliveness, she ignited my curiosity about the… Read full article…
Deer Medicine
An elegant deer took a few tentative steps onto the two-lane highway, looking here and there, ears shifting around, gathering information, assessing how and when to make her journey… Read full article…
Ancestors
Ancestral Intelligence (AI – the organic kind) Wide-open wings caught the rays of the sun as a red-tailed hawk soared from the sky landed with grace in a juniper tree just a… Read full article…
Sky Watchers
I just spent a few days in Southern Colorado, soaking in hot springs and wandering around the lands of Chimney Rock. These healing places have been calling me back, again… Read full article…
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