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Refuge and Crafting Space

I’m staying at another house. Moving from place to place seems to mark my current reality. In this wandering, my awareness of space increases and also my perception of home and refuge. Displacement elicits all kinds of emotion and there is insight into adapting and tolerating ambiguity. When you’re faced with a gap in life […]

Seeing the Forest

While the stock market tumults, I study things up close like the black and orange caterpillar that crosses my path. How does a caterpillar survive this uneven terrain I wonder? The war and torture in Ukraine continue while I step out firmly on wet soil. I listen to the tall pines sway and watch the […]

Intimacy

The following is a transcendental guided meditation experience. It offers you a sound journey designed to move your attention inward so the mind can settle into its natural quiet state. This meditation is a powerful tool if you want to deepen your experience of love, intimacy, and openness in your life. It aims at unblocking […]

Down To Earth Change

It’s been one week since I left the Light Tower. I now find myself very close to Earth. I’m renting a cabin in the Pocono woods with abundant deer and wild turkeys. There is a stream and I walk on gravel and damp leaves. I center my thoughts on Native American animal medicine. I know […]

Moving Beyond Best Intentions

Early in my career, I enjoyed reading Melanie Bush’s book, Breaking the Code of Good Intentions: Everyday forms of Whiteness. Many years later, I had the opportunity to get to know Melanie and experience her devotion. Melanie hit upon an important theme–how often our best intentions don’t manifest in reality. This is especially frustrating when […]

Mindfulness, Nature and Time

“There are times in life when we experience a time space warp such that you shift into another dimension that reveals the totality of our existence and immortality.” Ríos, 2017, TS+EF=SC It’s morning and I see the full moon setting over my balcony. I’m watching this happen on the same balcony that I watched the […]

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