We are almost finished designing Hazelnut Wisdom: Journeying to Ireland. Here is the cover. It’s an old painting of the Irish myth of the Salmon of Knowledge eating the hazelnuts that are falling into the Well of Wisdom. Pegi … Continued
This summer near the end of June, I was stuck in a depression, lethargic, not a creative thought to be had. But around the edges of this danger/crisis there lurked a sense of opportunity for some kind of change. Over … Continued
On April 12, after climbing up and down forested hillside trails, which led to various lovingly constructed, constantly changing rock altars, a group of women called Women’s Mysteries gathered around a lovely table set on the only flat spot on … Continued
Finding the Soul of the Season—Spring Equinox Sap is rising, nectar is flowing—pollination, the great giving and receiving exchange of fertilization springs to life again! In the eco-spirituality, or spiritual ecology, of the spring season we witness some of nature’s … Continued
Day 1 A red-shouldered hawk lands on a branch of the sugar maple outside my office window, looks around intently, watches, anticipates his next moves. Now he relaxes and preens: neck flexible as an owl’s, he bends and cleans both … Continued
The small group we call Women’s Mysteries always meets outdoors. It’s deeply satisfying when our exploration of psycho-spiritual growth includes interacting with nature. On several occasions one or more of us has communed with Mother Magnolia, Magnolia grandifolia, the tall … Continued
When someone creates something–a writer a poem, an artist a visual object–it is said they must let it go, so their readers and viewers can receive the gift and take their own meaning from it or infuse their own meaning … Continued
Tristan, our then 21 year old son, arrived home for Thanksgiving on Wednesday afternoon looking, as usual, like a large pack animal, his big backpack strapped on his back, his computer case hanging from one shoulder, his CD case … Continued
In Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer says, “One of our responsibilities as human people is to find ways to enter into reciprocity with the more-than-human world. We can do it through gratitude, through ceremony, through land stewardship, science, art, and … Continued
There is a place, partly imaginary, mostly real where tall gray beings sit in council on the top of a small mountain as if waiting for something to begin. Perhaps they are waiting for someone to sit quietly and listen … Continued