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📚 Becoming Beautiful Barbarians & Watershed have arrived
They arrived.They’re beautiful. I can’t wait to begin signing them. After years of wandering through notebooks, rivers, forests, grief, laughter, edits, and countless cups of fir tip tea, the first printed copies of Becoming Beautiful Barbarians and Watershed are finally here. In a couple… Continue Reading “📚 Becoming Beautiful Barbarians & Watershed have arrived”
Unauthorized Conversations with Awe
Even amid noise and numbness, busyness and overculture exhaustion,the world continues extending tiny invitations into participation. Awe keeps leaking through. The frog croaks from a hidden pond.The creek practices surrender beneath logs and around stones.Salmon waxcaps appear overnight, announcing: did you know mycelial fish… Continue Reading “Unauthorized Conversations with Awe”
Meeting the Bees Eye to Eye – A World Bee Day Reflection from the Heart of Empire
For me, re-enchantment begins simply: stopping all my antics of disappearing and learning (again and again) how to pay attention. On a mad meander through the forest the other day, amid a tangle of fir, ceonothos, huckleberry and salal bushes, my friends and I… Continue Reading “Meeting the Bees Eye to Eye – A World Bee Day Reflection from the Heart of Empire”
All the Terrible Things Will Become Tumbleweed
The old house of empire is groaning at the beams. Becoming Beautiful Barbarians is a poetry collection written from the threshold between collapse and re-enchantment—carrying wild kin, unraveling empires, deep-time trust, and the dangerous act of remaining openhearted in a burning world. Here’s a… Continue Reading “All the Terrible Things Will Become Tumbleweed”
Imaginal Buds Are Gathering
Over the past year, a body of work and play has been slowly crawling across the landscape. Some of you have already walked beside small pieces of it through courses, playshops, solstice circles, grief rituals, and scattered poems shared here and online. Now two… Continue Reading “Imaginal Buds Are Gathering”
No Amount of Miles – Lend Your Tears Back
We know that grief refuses to stay in its assigned lanes. It spills—across categories, across places and species, across distances we try to keep between things. It also accumulates, adding layers that thicken our lives. Over the past year, I’ve been working on a… Continue Reading “No Amount of Miles – Lend Your Tears Back”
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”
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”
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”
8 Books Flying and Chirping
8 books flying and chirping like pacific wren singing up the sun. Three fledglings (at bottom, Moon one not shown) needing a couple more worms before flight. A few more still in the nest, including the composting empire Becoming Beautiful Barbarians and Riverever. Feels… Continue Reading “8 Books Flying and Chirping”
From Inside These Wild Ones and Other Foraged Goodies
This summer I released 4 collections of earthy poetry. The first two are books 2 and 3 of the Re-Membering Poetry series. The third, Trust the Ceremony, is one I’ve been excited about for a while, and released 8 years to the day I… Continue Reading “From Inside These Wild Ones and Other Foraged Goodies”
Books, Breath, and Botanicals Giveaway for Gaza
Like many of you, I rack my brain (& soul) to find ways we can help the people of Gaza who are being mass murdered & starved by apartheid israel with the aid of our government. There are many ways to be part of… Continue Reading “Books, Breath, and Botanicals Giveaway for Gaza”
UPCOMING WILD NATURE HEART PROGRAMS
In addition to offering evergreen earth-rooted mentoring and ecotherapy, and custom wilderness rite-of-passage ceremony, I’m thrilled to be able to offer a basketful of programs in the next few months. Deep Belonging in the Great Turning (starting tomorrow, Wednesday) was Wild Nature Heart’s first… Continue Reading “UPCOMING WILD NATURE HEART PROGRAMS”
POLYPOETIC PRODUCTION IN PROCESS
“𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘦𝘤𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳. 𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘦𝘵, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘴.” – 𝘙𝘶𝘮𝘪 It’s been a polypoetic productive wow of the den time. I’m happy to have both tended the delicious darkness & liminal rest and… Continue Reading “POLYPOETIC PRODUCTION IN PROCESS”
In deep conversation with the Magic of the world
From the Life mat this morning 🙇🏻♂️🌞 INHALEMay all beings be who they really arewithout restriction or fear.May we stretch our starlight imagination beyond its binary rusty cages.May your liberation be my liberation.May we spend our unearned privilege in the service of Life and… Continue Reading “In deep conversation with the Magic of the world”
NEW: THRESHOLD: Earth Intimacies & the Art of Transformation
I’m both tickled like a butterfly and hungry like a caterpillar for Wild Nature Heart’s new course/journey starting next month.
THRESHOLD: Earth Intimacies and the Art of Transformation is a 6-week course journey dedicated to tending both our personal and collective thresholds with intention and heart. With the images of threshold crossing and caterpillar-to-butterfly transformation as guiding metaphors, we will deepen our ecospiritual practices, practice being present with the whole of what is at our doorstep, and proliferate imaginal buds for what is emerging.
Falling Off the Map: an Invitation
I’m both excited and curious about Wild Nature Heart’s new course container starting next month. Falling Off the Map is premised on the sneaking suspicion that we’ve exhausted the exhausting maps we’re caught in. That we are being invited to fall through inherited maps… Continue Reading “Falling Off the Map: an Invitation”
2023 NEW YEAR’S INCARNATIONS
💧Recite the eon-long poems in our blood💧Relish our grand and gratuitous re-enchantment💧Kiss the other-kin in the center of our cells💧Allow prophetic artistry to germinate from our magnificent failures💧Waltz whimsically with all the big and little deaths💧Let our inner cops out of jail💧Caress each other’s… Continue Reading “2023 NEW YEAR’S INCARNATIONS”
Wild Nature Heart October Update
Dear Wild Nature Hearts, A few days ago, I woke up feeling overwhelmed. I sensed my imagination waning. Perhaps you can relate to that sensation of constriction that can arise when you’ve been digesting too much about climate catastrophes, shameless capitalist exploitation and commodification,… Continue Reading “Wild Nature Heart October Update”
DON’T FORGET THE SMALLS
Don’t forget the Smalls in your basket of Whos Don’t forget the smells when you’re looking for clues Don’t forget your nose when you’re searching for hints Don’t forget the sense of all of the scents Don’t forget your ear, to put to the… Continue Reading “DON’T FORGET THE SMALLS”
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