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One Bright and Real Caress: A Playshop in Being Here
Can we be here now?Really be here? A playshop in staying with what is. There are a thousand ways we leave our life. You know them: Staying busy. Staying numb. Staying distracted. Staying elsewhere. Every so often, something interrupts the habit—a yellow-tailed bird lands… Continue Reading “One Bright and Real Caress: A Playshop in Being Here”
Reconnect with Nature: Four-Week Ecosensual Journey
For some time I’ve held Sundays as an excuse/opportunity to explore slowly ad specifically in an ecosensual way – meaning simply being more present to opening my senses intentionally to what/who is around me. I occasionally post some experiences as #EcosensualSunday and last year… Continue Reading “Reconnect with Nature: Four-Week Ecosensual Journey”
Welcome to the Pollination Party! Celebrating Pollinator People on Re-Enchantment Day
“Among the humble-bees, for instance, the workersdo not dream of renouncing love.”~Maurice Maeterlinck, The Life of the Bee Welcome to the Pollination Party! My practice this week was simply to notice: who are the flitting, flirting, flapping, crawling, buzzing, whirring, partying pollinators around me?… Continue Reading “Welcome to the Pollination Party! Celebrating Pollinator People on Re-Enchantment Day”
Writing as Refusal, Writing as Compost, Writing as Spark
The next round of Write Against/Beyond Empire is next Wednesday, April 1. This is a gathering for people carrying grief, rage, confusion, clarity, and imagination in a time of imperial violence, lies, and psychic exhaustion. Together we’ll write from earth, body, and heart—not to… Continue Reading “Writing as Refusal, Writing as Compost, Writing as Spark”
That Equinox Imagination and the Mystery of Emergence
All of sudden it appears: The blossom. The catkin. The unfurling fern.The dawn.The evening star. The crescent moon.The clarity. The lightning strike of Intuition.The bubbling up of grief, of unexpected courage.The pollination party. The unexpected crack in the old story. The vision beyond. The… Continue Reading “That Equinox Imagination and the Mystery of Emergence”
A Thousand Glorious Threads
It’s dark in here.That much we can agree on. It’s easy to want to panic. To grasp about for threadshitting your head hard on thingsa step in any direction. But please pleasedon’t follow the wrong thread home. It’s so easy to miss your threadwhen… Continue Reading “A Thousand Glorious Threads”
Kiss Me a Huckleberry, Teach Me the Storm: An Ecosensual Playshop
For some time I’ve held Sundays as an excuse to explore slowly ad specifically in an ecosensual way – meaning simply being more present to opening my senses intentionally to what/who is around me. I occasionally post some experiences as #EcosensualSunday and last year… Continue Reading “Kiss Me a Huckleberry, Teach Me the Storm: An Ecosensual Playshop”
Seasonocracy: An Equinox Re-alignment Playshop
A creative pause at the Equinox to reflect, realign, and seed what wants to grow Twice each year, Earth pauses in a moment of rare balance. On the Spring Equinox, day and night briefly stand as equals as the light begins its steady return.… Continue Reading “Seasonocracy: An Equinox Re-alignment Playshop”
Write Against Empire: A Regenerative Writing Gathering
“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way.On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” – Arundhati Roy “The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.”—Murray Bookchin This is a gathering… Continue Reading “Write Against Empire: A Regenerative Writing Gathering”
Resist Not the Gravity of the Moment
“In a dark time, the eye begins to see.” ~Theodore Roethke My motto is: never waste a good Full Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse. I try to practice not dominating Mystery with too much pre-packaged agenda or meaning making. I didn’t carry any specific plan… Continue Reading “Resist Not the Gravity of the Moment”
Love Against Empire
“May we love in ways that devastingly disrupt state violence.” ~Gabes Torres What does Love want in this moment? What work does it do? What does it serve? What are Love’s implications for navigating the path ahead? This V-Day we gather these questions in… Continue Reading “Love Against Empire”
Co-Weaving Words Beyond Empire
Something we do in some of the Wild Nature Heart classes is an activity called Co-Weaving Words: collect a handful of resonant words/phrases from each participant then create collective poems from this basket of words, using mostly only these words, like ingredients in a… Continue Reading “Co-Weaving Words Beyond Empire”
Earth Intimacies: Apprenticing to Life
Often when we hear the word intimacy, we think romance. At the very least we think about humans. But what if intimacy with Earth was not only possible, but necessary for co-creating the world we want to inhabit and bequeath to future generations? For… Continue Reading “Earth Intimacies: Apprenticing to Life”
Write Against Empire: A Regenerative Writing Gathering
“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way.On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” – Arundhati Roy This is a gathering for people carrying grief, rage, confusion, clarity, and imagination in a time of imperial violence, lies, and psychic… Continue Reading “Write Against Empire: A Regenerative Writing Gathering”
Cultivating Deep Belonging, Creative Awesomeness, and Earth Intimacies
I’m thrilled to be able to offer a basketful of 2026 programs starting in February. They all explore re-belonging ourselves in the animate web of life, practicing our creative awesomeness, cultivating all dimensions of our wholeness, and embodying our purpose. If being part of… Continue Reading “Cultivating Deep Belonging, Creative Awesomeness, and Earth Intimacies”
For Those Who Listen to Earth
Never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d have 10 poetry books out there, flitting about in the bushes and soaring in winter skies. This time last year there were just the two originals, that grew from my time in the forest and… Continue Reading “For Those Who Listen to Earth”
Moon Has A Long Memory
Moon Has a Long Memory is finally here. Moon as Companion. Moon as Lover.Moon as Elder and Messenger.Moon as Turtle as Human Heart.Night Sky as home and heritage. Savor these 33 lunatic poems that evoke new perspectives on Earth’s ancient companions, popping them on… Continue Reading “Moon Has A Long Memory”
Kiss Me A Huckleberry
Kiss Me A Huckleberry is finally here 🙂 At first, I was thinking of waiting until next summer to release this one because the cover features wild fruit. But don’t be fooled, Ecosensuality is not only a summer season thing—it’s a year round evocation.… Continue Reading “Kiss Me A Huckleberry”
Curiouser and Curiouser
There are certain worlds that only make themselves available if you slow down enough to see them eye-to-eye. Gut-to-gut. god-to-god. There are certain dimensions that open only if you meet their vibration.There are certain beings that require a landing pad in your psychosomatics, a… Continue Reading “Curiouser and Curiouser”
How Dreams are Mushrooms of the Landscape of the Soul and Become Fruiting Bodies of Creativity
Precisely a year ago I experienced a flurry-of-dreams-week. It started with one that said: “The dreaming time began with sacrifice.” It ended with one where my mom presented me with a baby dragon as a gift. Instead of scales, it has green and blue… Continue Reading “How Dreams are Mushrooms of the Landscape of the Soul and Become Fruiting Bodies of Creativity”
Deep Belonging, Creative Awesomeness, and Earth Intimacies
I can hardly believe we’re approaching the end of 2025. It took me a few years, but I actually love these deepening dark and slowing down few weeks before Winter Solstice. In addition to offering one more program this year (Within the Cave Something… Continue Reading “Deep Belonging, Creative Awesomeness, and Earth Intimacies”
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