Indigenous Inspiration

Jamie Sams For the better part of the year I have been actively working with the two books by Jamie Sams, Earth Medicine and The 13 Original Clan Mothers. What these, more than anything previously have provided for me is peace and a feeling of coming home, solidity...

Miraculous despair

At the greatest moment of despair, when you can only but accept (and have just accepted) the inevitable,miracles start to happen.Like a knob, tension inevitably building, just before it is about to burst open into a beautiful flower.

Hope

hope always was our thing we humans even though we forgot and focus on fear when fear grabs us in our separate worlds isolated at home we Think Our ego extremifies we lose hope we think we are alone but we are never alone we are connected to the sun, the moon, the...

Spring equinox

The sun sets slowly in the forestAn eerie shift between worlds tangeableDark and night, equally lightThe glowing sun permeating still bare branchesA golden coat descendsDeep connection with Earth, Forest, and Sky.Fulfillment and gratefulness expand.Complete – I...

Loving Compassion (an ode)

And my drum saves the day again, I feel very grateful for having this instrument in my life. Deep pain, deep core wounds hit,Nowhere to goNowhere for solaceNow it is soNo one to reach out toNo one to seeI sit on the bed (and look up)My drum smiles at meHolding you...