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As a culture we prize all things brightly illuminated. We cherish the summer and grow bitter in the cold. We electrify our homes to be white as

A quiet has settled over these hills in the past few weeks. A hush that rises from the fading amber of the landscape and its open-limbed

There are a handful of things that I can say I’m honestly addicted to. Potato chips are, admittedly, one of them. Buying crystals is another

At some point growing up I adopted the belief that to be spiritual was to be un-intellectual. That intuition, even though it sounded

Belief in reincarnation was common throughout the ancient world. It is found in the oral tradition of many tribal societies,

This post is a bit of a departure from my normal blog material (namely— nature, plants, poetry, ecology and metaphor), but the

The new year has dawned like a thaw. These first few days of the year have always felt like a special, liminal space to me. A crack in the long

Each lifetime contains multitudes. A multicolored collection of insights and experiences. A many-hued menagerie of dusks and

We think of our lives like a timeline but, really, they are poems just waiting to be experienced. Poetry has always fascinated me. Like

Healing is about communing with the cycles. Like the circles of sun and tide and horizon, our lives are intimately guided, nudged