Photo by Brad Meese Hello Beautiful Relatives  – This past Thursday, October 12, was my 54th birthday. Lately, I have been contemplating my ancestry. Not just the blood lines of those who gave me DNA and life but also those who have nourished me through milk lines and story lines. This can be a powerful…

Hello Fellow Humans  – Grief seems to be a constant companion in these days of burning and confusion. We are living with new and unfamiliar ways of moving through the world…much of my summer and fall is given to tracking AQI numbers and wind direction and then feeling the sadness of not being able to…

Hello Fellow Humans  – Someone, somewhere, once said something like, “A broken heart is an open heart”, meaning that if we can allow our hearts to be broken there may be a chance to allow in more love and connection. They are not mutually exclusive, in fact, they are part of a continuum of aliveness…

Hello Fellow Inter-Beings  – Recently, I was in conversation with a group of folks and someone asked for support for an upcoming venture that was feeling exciting and edgy. After we all offered our support and ways of holding this person as they planned to navigate this event, someone on the group thanked them for…

Hello Fellow Sensuous Humans  – I invite you to pause reading for a moment (I know we just got started!) and notice the textures and temperatures along your skin. Can you feel your weight through contact with the ground…the pressure of your sit bones or feet? Now, take a slow inhalation through your nose… notice…

Hello Wild Embodied Souls of Nature – There is something emerging with this spring time in the Northern Hemisphere. As the days grow longer and warmer folks are starting to inquire about what’s next in their life? What’s been on the back burner (for the past 3 years or the past 30)? What do I…

Hello Lovelies – Well I missed my self-imposed deadline of the New Moon for this post. I simply had a very full week and didn’t try to cram it in and overwhelm my system with another demand for my energy and time. Then the weekend arrived and I chose to give myself some downtime, some…

Hello Fellow Humans – In our western society there is a deep drive to have more joy but we seem to go about this in all the wrong ways. We go after things and accolades and even certain kinds of experiences in order to ‘be happy’. But the flip side of joy is grief and…

Hello Fellow Humans – One of the pieces of wisdom I am dancing with right now is the deeper understanding that we humans actually become more human when we are in right relationship with other. Not just other humans but other beings; our more than human neighbors, our green brothers and sisters and all the…