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...

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...

10 years of going solo

Ten years ago, I was standing on the edge of a high, reddish-brown cliff. As far as my eyes could see, there was nothing, just desert. Nothing but sand and rock and cliffs and more of the same. A low pitch zoom, buzzing from below, slowly ascended. A slowly pulsating...

The day it rained gratitude

There is nothing more precious, nothing more joyous than being pregnant and feeling a baby alive inside of you. And, loosing a child is one of the worst things ever that can happen to a woman.. This is for all the women out there who had stillbirths, to honor their...

Mooney tunes

The Moon cycle governs many a life on this beautiful blue ball. Generation upon generation of humans lived in total synchrony with its cycle. And, in a certain abstract way, looking at our calendar year and its units of months, we still do. But do we really? Speaking...