YAY! This day has always been special to me. Where I live on the planet, the Winter Solstice in December is the shortest day and the longest night. After the Solstice, the days start to become longer and nights shorter. Light is in ascendance. For this, I celebrate. A bit of factoid trivia: “solstice” … Read More
Shamanism & Spritual
Alone or Surrounded?
The artist Louise Bourgeois famously stated, “You are born alone. You die alone…” And this has been embraced into the lexicon of folk wisdom ever since. She was wrong. Or rather, I disagree. First of all, how can we be born alone when we spend our first 9 months inside our mother’s womb, being so … Read More
Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation
No one group — ethnic or otherwise — can have ownership of being in a relationship with Spirit. Wars have been and are being fought because each faction claims, “God is on our side!” Spirit found me years ago, a small child standing outside in awe of the sunlight and breeze, playing tag in the tree … Read More
Overwhelm Antidote
My life has been very full lately. One might say “busy,” but that does not quite capture what I have been experiencing, as a large part of the perceived fullness has centered around choices – choices between opportunities and multiple possibilities. As I weighed the pros and cons of all these possibilities (“Go there!” “Come … Read More
Winter Solstice 2017
The celestial doings in our corner of the Cosmos often pique my own doings. The Winter Solstice, when the light begins to gain time in our days, is one of those significant “doings.” Light lifts me up, extroverts me, helps me. “From out of the deepest, darkest night of the year comes a … Read More
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