Oceania
“It’s a serious thing to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world.” Mary Oliver I am the ocean. When you see me, you feel my power in every cell of your body. You are awed by my power, although it doesn’t scare you. I go on forever and ever. I am the waters of birth, and so I…
Proprioception
Image by Hanna Witte “Self-observation without self-judgment is the highest form of spiritual practice.” Swami Kripalu Proprioception is the sense of knowing where your body is in space. Sensory receptors within muscles, tendons and joints transmit proprioceptive signals to the…
Tasting
Image by Julie Sd on Unsplash “Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.” Ruth Reichl Everyone has different tastes. In food, in style, in everything. Sometimes it’s delicious and sometimes it’s bitter & we rebel. “Just take a taste,” a mother encourages…
March
Image by Anastasiya Romanova on Unsplash “The beauty of nature insists on taking its time. Everything is prepared. Nothing is rushed. The rhythm of emergence is a gradual slow beat always inching its way forward; change remains faithful to itself until the new unfolds in the full confidence…
Requiem
“To walk quietly till the miracle in everything speaks, is poetry, whether we write it down or not.” Mark Nepo Welcome Community of my Heart and thank you for coming here! If you like what you read, I would love it if you clicked the ‘like’ button, and comment as well if you like. Liking a…
Touch
Image by Yoann Boyer on Unsplash “Too often we underestimate the power of touch.” Leo Buschglia The touch of a hand when you’re feeling lost and confused can bring comfort and a sense of belonging, as it did for me at my mother’s memorial service. Fresh from the hospital room where she died,…
Color
Image by Guy Stevens on Unsplash "Color is a power which directly influences the soul." - Wassily Kandinsky Welcome Community of my Heart and thank you for coming here! If you like what you read, I would love it if you clicked the ‘like’ button, and comment as well if you like. Liking a post…
February
Image by Roman Datsiuk from Unsplash “The February sunshine steeps your boughs And tints the buds & swells the leaves within.” William Cullen Bryant “Winter brings pleasures of which summer knows nothing.” Rachel De Thample Welcome Community of my Heart and thank you for coming here! If…
Scent
“Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.” Diane Ackerman Welcome Community of my Heart and thank you for coming here! If you like what you read, I would love it if you…
The Soundtrack of My Life
“Divine sound is the cause of all manifestation. The knower of the mystery of sound knows the mystery of the whole Universe.” Hazrat Inayat Khan Read in my newest Substack here: Image by Sameep Adhikari on Unsplash
January
“There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you. In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.” Ruth Stout Read my full substack…
Cycles & Iterations
Image by Anhelina Osaulenko from Unsplash “If we surrendered to Earth’s intelligence, we could rise up rooted like trees.” Rilke New post on substack-
Eldering
My mother and her sisters: Ginia, Tottie, Anna, Jan, & Punkie “I am of the nature to have ill health. There is no way to escape ill health. I am of the nature to grow old. There is no way to escape growing old. I am of the nature to die. There is no way to escape death. All that is dear…
Journals
For the full post, check out my Substack at We Are Remembering The landscapes of our bodies are beginning to sing the wild song of the living Earth. She is calling us home. Home to the shelter of the Mother Tree, teaching us to stand in her magnificence, to spread our arms wide, and reach…
What I have Learned
Things I’ve Learned I wrote this in my newsletter to my students in 2023, and it’s all still relevant today! 1 Love is the answer to every question. 2 I can move past anxiety. 3 Reading brings me happiness. 4 The world will break my heart….sometimes daily. 5 Jigsaw puzzles calm…
She is the Darkness
Image from Carolina Pimenta on Unsplash “In the midst of the cacophony of outrage and suffering in the world at this moment, I find myself turning to the rhythms of the earth as my guide and teacher, as I’ve done for decades.” Joanna Powell Colbert
Ancestors
This essay is in response to @Beth Kempton’s Soul Circle word “Wintery.” But it is also a tribute to my ancestors, and the realm of the Divine Feminine as she guides our hearts and minds to live in the present moment based on a deep acknowledgement of the past and those from whom we…
December EnLIGHTenment
Each year I send free emails from December 1-24 to my friends, students, and family to bring a sense of joy and lightness to a season that can be challenging for some. Here's an email from last year to give you an idea. If you are interested, leave me your email and I'll put…
My Motherline
“When a woman whispers her fears to her ancestors, a thousand grandmothers answer her call.” Ubaka Hill Full post on
Connection
Image from Unsplash by Priscilla du Preez Substack 11/2/25 Connection Welcome Community of my Heart and thank you for coming here! If you like what you read, I would love it if you would click the ‘like’ button, and comment as well if you like. Liking a post affects the algorithm and…
What is enlightenment?
“All spiritualities consistently describe the same state: a direct experience of reality unclouded by thought. Love, presence, God, enlightenment-same thing. This is what happens when the mind grows still. The end goal is to wake up to this moment, fully, and live from it.”…
Shard,as in a shard of memory
What interests me about memories isn’t what the memory is about, but what it elicits when it arises in my mind. Watch this--- The scent of my grandmother’s linen closet…the labyrinthine halls of the second floor in her house where I played with my dolls, creating…
Encounter
Welcome Community of my Heart and thank you for coming here! If you like what you read, I would love it if you would click the ‘like’ button, and comment as well if you like. Check out “Notes” on my main page too. This essay is in response to Beth Kempton’s Soul Circle topic this…
Autumn
image by autumn mott rodeheaver from unsplash Autumn nurtures my soul with its gradual release of the summer’s growth so that the plants’ lifeblood recedes into the earth to nurture next year’s life emerging.
Home
“To forget one’s ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root.” Chinese proverb This essay is in response to Beth Kempton’s Soul Circle topic this week-Home Home is here in this moment, and in every moment my ancestors have lived. Their laughter & tears are the structure…
Clarity
Art by Susan Seddon Boulet “What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.” Muriel Rukeyser “I dedicate my spirit to eradicating patriarchal holds on women’s sovereignty.” M. Chabinsky Sovereignty means complete independence, authority and power.…
Sangha/Community
“The sangha is an island of peace.” Thich Nhat Hanh “Everyone is in my sangha. I don’t know if that’s the proper definition, but that’s the way I’m going to hold it in my mind.” Jeff Bridges Welcome Community of my Heart and thank you for coming here! If you like what you read, I…