Subject: Join us for your 2025 reflection (it’s not too late!)
Join us for your 2025 reflection (it’s not too late!)
January 3rd, 2026 at 10:30 am EDTHi Friend, I love that in our Circular Time session participants - amazing people like yourself - keep telling me how much they get out of it. And I love the thing itself: in each session - which are small and highly participatory - a tender, open- ...
Preparing for 2026: Finding patterns in the recent past
December 27th, 2025 at 10:00 am EDTHi Friend, 2025 was a big year. A lot happened. This is true for me personally and professionally.... and in our world. 2026 will also be a big year. In Chinese astrology, it's the year of the Fire Horse: bold action, dynamism, speed, and transform ...
Rethinking Light and Dark at Winter Solstice
December 20th, 2025 at 10:00 am EDTTo go in the dark with a light is to know the light.To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings. - Wendell Berry Dear ones - Back in the days when the coming ...
Coming up: Christmas and New Years...as Origin Stories!
December 13th, 2025 at 11:00 am EDTHi Friend, You know that Christmas is coming up. And New Year's. You know that even if you don't celebrate Christmas. Even if you have never celebrated and never intend to celebrate Christmas. Or New Year's. Even if you hate New Year's Parties and ...
Oh Where Does the Light Go
December 6th, 2025 at 11:00 am EDTHi Friend, Looking up from my computer at 3:45 pm, and I notice the sunlight is already fading. Dark blue shadows quickly race up and down the snow-covered hills. Where did the daylight go? Looking at my calendar, and I notice the first week of Dec ...
Enter Winter in Kin-ship: Starting Tomorrow!
December 2nd, 2025 at 8:00 am EDTHi Friend, We in the northern hemisphere need ways to enter Winter: so often it is accompanied with cold and (literal) darkness. Dominant culture acts as if December is all bright lights and buying lots of things and getting other people to buy lot ...
Introducing Strawberry Wisdom: Heart Medicine for Revitalization
November 30th, 2025 at 6:12 pm EDTHi Friend, First: thank you to everyone who downloaded our Thanksgiving resource guide! Second, a quick announcement: We are starting our annual Wonder and Preparation: An Advent Series for Winter Solstice this Wednesday. Come to one or all three s ...
Thanksgiving Free Resource
November 23rd, 2025 at 4:10 pm EDTHi Friend, For the past ten years, I have been creating some kind of public offering during the Thanksgiving season, exploring the complexity of this holiday, especially around decolonizing, storytellin,g and relating with land, family, nationhood ...
Gratitudes as windows into life-webs
November 16th, 2025 at 3:19 pm EDTHi Friend, Amongst a soft drizzling California rain the other day, I awoke thinking of so much that I'm grateful for. It feels right to share some with you. Not particularly, mind you, because it is the 'season of thanks-giving' in the U.S. and Ca ...
Where do we look for inspiration?
November 10th, 2025 at 2:25 pm EDTClick here to listen to the full newsletterHi Friend, So I was at a conference in London recently with all these big players where people were talking about the need for systemic change, because the current system is broken and something new is n ...