Communion is hard to translate into words, these spaces of knowing and being in deep relatedness. It’s not a rational, mental layer that is engaged here, it’s something much deeper. Being with the water, with the sky, sitting in communion with the birds and uttering: ‘like you I too feel joy, I dance & I …
At the end of this year I feel empty.Empty of resolutions, words of the year, empty of big plans and intentions. I’m allowing this emptiness to spread throughout my body and hollow out my ideas of how things should be.Currently decluttering measuring devices of all kinds (rulers, comparisons, weighing scales, resentments & expectations, even the spirit …
When I forget who I am, I sit at the feet of trees and listen.I smell the earth, I watch the wind, follow the blackbird.My cells sing soundlessly along with their mycelial cousins.Their generosity humbles me always. Life becomes death becomes life.I’m so unaware, and when I look I’m overwhelmed by the gift of it: …
Recently, I’ve been engaging in the experiment of listening very closely to my body and to deeper knowing that lives in my cells.This includes particular care to listen to boundaries and whispers that in the past have been ignored.This is a deeper surrender. A deeper release of control.I’m very used to staying with intensity and …
Sit spots…. It really is a powerful thing to cultivate relationships with particular beings, to sit and listen through the seasons in the same spot. This tree is a dear friend and refuge for me, and this spot is a classroom.One of the biggest lessons that has come to me from this kind of committed …
Plants can help us drop our worm’s eye view, see things from a different plane.They do this in many ways, can take us to many layers of ourselves, of this planet, of this life and beyond.Egyptian Blue Lotus transmits this continued expansion of perspective, an opening to beingness.A resting in the inky cosmic blackness of …
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