Subject: Ocean gifts and other unexpected possibilities
Ocean gifts and other unexpected possibilities
August 16th, 2025 at 10:00 am EDTHi Friend, About six years ago, I got an unexpected invitation ... with a lot of unexpected results. One of which was the way in which I think and teach about Origin Stories. It's such a cool story that I want to share it with you. It was 2019 (rea ...
To What Do We Surrender?
August 9th, 2025 at 10:00 am EDTHi Friend, Surrender. That was the word that kept coming up this week with different clients and students. Oh, we are so not in control. Of people. Of places. Of things. The question with surrender - with devotion and also realization of any kind - ...
"Grain Day", anyone? An ancient holiday and some contemporary considerations
August 2nd, 2025 at 10:00 am EDTHi Friend, A few years ago, I was part of a tour of a regenerative grain farm in the Hudson Valley on August 1st. When I mentioned to the farmer who was giving us the tour that it was quite auspicious that we were there that day, as it was Lammas/L ...
End of an era?
July 26th, 2025 at 10:00 am EDTDear ones - First, thank you to those of you who reached out to me after my last missive, where I lifted up both our most recent podcast and my own relationship with Joanna Macy. It happened that that letter went out to you beautiful people the ...
Deep Ecology and Ever Widening Circles: Insights from John Seed and Joanna Macy's Legacy
July 19th, 2025 at 10:00 am EDTHi Friend, I admit that I was initially suspicious when an unknown publicist reached out to me about a potential guest for our ReMembering and ReEnchanting Podcast. When I read the name, I had to laugh: Deep Ecologist John Seed. I chuckled. Oh, ...
Stepping into different worlds
July 12th, 2025 at 10:00 am EDTHi Friend, Every present moment contains within it multiple worlds. Some say the future is always present - it is just unevenly distributed.... and we don't always know which worlds will arise and which ones will collapse. And sometimes, it is tru ...
Independence Day: Origins and Echoes
July 4th, 2025 at 4:24 pm EDTHi Friend, Histories echo into the now. Different present moments, like different canyons, illicit different kinds of echoes. In this particular crevice of time, there are many echoes from multiple moments. Some of the news in the past week re ...
Potent Stories
June 25th, 2025 at 3:11 pm EDTHi Friend, For the last two years, Krissy and I have hosted a Fourth of July/Origins of Democracy online event along with Krissy's son, Dr Montgomery Hill. Both years, this indigenous-settler conversation concerning our shared history has signifi ...
Resources for Summer Solstice and Juneteenth
June 18th, 2025 at 4:07 pm EDTHi Friend, Do you have any suggestions for Summer Solstice? clients have been asking me in the lsat few weeks. You might already have made your plans (including deciding not to do anything), but I'm sharing with all of you some of what I've been ...
When the everyday enchants
June 14th, 2025 at 1:00 pm EDTHi Friend, In recent weeks, Krissy and I have been spending a lot of time working in our yard. This year, there are so many flowers. Some of the abundance of flowers arises from the work we've put in for the last few years - taking out poison i ...