Subject: New episode: Mapping the Inner Landscape
New episode: Mapping the Inner Landscape
December 28th, 2024 at 10:00 am EDTHi Friend, I’m so delighted to be sharing this episode with Lisa DeLay – a contemporary contemplative woman, based in the contemplative Christian tradition and the hostess of the “Spark My Muse” podcast, which I have been very much enjoyin ...
Solstice Musing: Grief, Gratitude, and Traditions
December 21st, 2024 at 9:00 am EDTHi Friend, In our most recent Advent Series (which was super beautiful and is now over), grief kept arising. Porous, the grief flowed: from the political/the state of the world to the personal to the existential. On some level, I was not surpris ...
Liminality and climate change
December 14th, 2024 at 10:00 am EDTHi Friend, This past weekend, Krissy and I co-facilitated a special community gathering in Tennessee focused around the circular time ritual. It's always difficult to talk about these rituals. Or to take pictures. It's so, in the moment. Each ex ...
Reflecting on Cycles and Sacred Time
December 7th, 2024 at 10:00 am EDTHi Friend, During our most recent Advent session this past week, we reflected on the Bear's patterns of hibernating for winter. It starts of course months earlier, in late summer. The eating. So. Much. Eating. As one of the participants in the se ...
What time is it?
December 1st, 2024 at 10:00 am EDTHi Friend, What time is it? Such a prosaic and simultaneously profound question. To answer, one must understand the context that the question is referencing. Time is always embedded into place. Clocktime? Check your phone/watch/nearest time k ...
Thanksgiving and Winter Solstice
November 25th, 2024 at 6:00 pm EDTHi Friend, Apparently time keeps moving, even after Big Things (like elections). Here in America, it is almost Thanksgiving. If you've been on this email list for a while, you know that I've been offering regular Thanksgiving offerings and articl ...
Into the darkness
November 16th, 2024 at 9:00 am EDTHi Friend, The dark is coming. Shadows lengthen. Regardless of our individual preparation, it is coming: the long nights and the short days. I am, of course, talking about the coming of winter. Did you, perhaps for a second, think I might be re ...
Blessings of the rustling leaves
October 31st, 2024 at 5:51 pm EDTHi Friend, Halloween/Sawhain is upon us, and with it, the coming of the long nights and short days. On the solar circle of the year, this is the moment when we can clearly see the approaching Winter Solstice. In many parts of the northern hemisphe ...
Why "Everyone should take this course."
October 22nd, 2024 at 5:41 pm EDTHi Friend, So, Sara, I just want you to know that I told everyone at this gathering about how important the ReMembering Course is, and why they should take it. I was talking with my friend Rachel, and we were debriefing about a gathering sh ...
Correction: Indigenous Peoples' Day
October 13th, 2024 at 10:21 am EDTHello! I saw my mistake as soon as I read the email that went out to you this morning. I did not consistently use the correct grammar or capitalization for Indigenous Peoples' Day. It should be: capital I, capital P, capital D. And: Peoples' is alw ...