Subject: Fire, podcasts, and small ambitions

Fire, podcasts, and small ambitions

January 18th, 2025 at 10:00 am EDT

Hi Friend, This email is a part of a short series on seed sorting- in this case I’m sharing some of the cool podcasters and their podcasts that I met at a recent gathering of podcasters, and reflecting on this much bigger question: how do we gat ...

Winter is for seedsorting

January 11th, 2025 at 10:00 am EDT

Hi Friend, First: Sending blessings and care to everyone who is directly impacted and/or watching loved ones experience the wildfires in Southern California, the blizzards in D.C./North Carolina/Virginia/Oklahoma/Texas, and other manifestations of ...

Circular Journeys: Spiraling into 2025

January 4th, 2025 at 9:00 am EDT

“Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.”― Parker J. Palmer, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation Hi Friend, What is our life telling us about..... us? This is ...

New episode: Mapping the Inner Landscape

December 28th, 2024 at 10:00 am EDT

Hi 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 EDT

Hi 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 EDT

Hi 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 EDT

Hi 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 EDT

Hi 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 EDT

Hi 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 EDT

Hi 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 ...