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Trees
It was the chainsaw I heard first, of course. She lay in chunks—some on the east side of the road, most on the west. I counted 50 rings ...
Jul 19, 2023
Traveling with the Fairies
Everything has changed. For as I go for my morning saunter, I see them. The first green shoots of grass. It is misty and mysterious out ...
Jun 26, 2023
Unity
I have recently travelled to one of my ancestral homelands—the one that grows magnolia trees and backyard crawfish ...
May 21, 2023
Generosity & Altruism
I called the local food pantry coordinator to see if she had some spots for an aspiring group of decided do-gooders and tree-huggers ...
Dec 27, 2021
Compassion: Acknowledging the Indian Boarding School
Between 1869 and 1978 hundreds of thousands of Native children were taken from their homes and families and sent to Indian Boarding Schools
Jul 30, 2021
Silence
It used to really bother me, the week of spring break, when I didn’t have the finances to pack up and take off like everybody else. ...
Apr 30, 2021
Becoming the Light
It’s winter, as dark as it will ever get, and we're at rock bottom. Yet it’s the darkest days that hold the gravest, most needed lessons ...
Dec 23, 2020
The Uprising of the Well Maiden
Well Maidens preside over the liminal edges of water, overflowing cups in hand, as they guard the secret outpourings of springs ...
Sep 7, 2020
Connectivity & the Coronavirus
I have often said I wish the world would slow down so we could take a collective breath. It seems this is exactly what we’ve been given.
Jul 25, 2020
Claiming Colonialism
I am a ninth generation American, tracing the branches of my family tree that ultimately rooted itself in the land of southern Arkansas.
Jul 3, 2020
Reweaving Relationship: On Stewardship, Wholeness & Wolves
Restoration can help heal our colonist past and envision a more symbiotic future, reweaving our relationship to this land whole again.
Mar 3, 2020
Searching for the Sacred: Part V
It is time to recreate our mythology. We must turn off our screens, step away from our jobs and our shopping, put aside our overburdened ...
Feb 17, 2020
Searching for the Sacred: Parts III & IV
Mythological refugees, we are severed by space and time from any positive nourishment traditions from our ancestral homelands might offer ..
Feb 10, 2020
Searching for the Sacred: Parts I & II
There are not historically relevant spiritual sites evoking feelings of reverence, connection or mysticism in this land ...
Feb 3, 2020
Redefining
The experience of deep, profound, intact wilderness is unrivaled, a thing unto itself, far away from the noise ...
Jan 8, 2020
A Gift to the World
What if we envision a world going forward , where the boundaries of taking care of ourselves broaden to include all creatures, all people...
Dec 23, 2019
Kind Communication
As each person approached and passed, we left a mark on each other. A palatable microburst of energy that could be full of love or anger
Oct 24, 2019
The Lost Art of Listening
Each of us only holds a tiny shard of truth. But when we put them together, the picture is more whole, more complete.
Oct 10, 2019
Late Summer
There is a time when we go walking, and we notice it has changed. All of the sudden hillsides are striped with purple and gold asters ...
Sep 12, 2019
A Malevolent Malaise
It is all of it. It is that you can buy assault rifles and semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines at all. ...
Aug 16, 2019