

Talking Dirty with Earth
I'm walking in the greenbelt on this beautiful sunny spring day. The breeze whips crab apple, Texas barberry, and mountain laurel nectars...
Feb 27, 20233 min read
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The Song of the Soul
Poetry is like the dream, always a step ahead of us. We fall in love with a poem well before we know what it means. Years later, after...
Feb 26, 20233 min read
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Love letter to the peas, the Fabulous fabacaea
Of all the specimens I collected, plastered to my index cards with packing tape, writing the latin and common names, the family, it was...
Feb 25, 20231 min read
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May the birds of your attention truly land
I'm sitting at the kitchen table again, checking my email, when a mourning dove lands on the railing of the balcony. Now, I know the...
Feb 24, 20235 min read
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Believing your life matters
Right around this time a year ago I got slammed by my first full on somatic trauma flashback. I actually pretty much brought it on...
Feb 23, 20234 min read
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Casting yet another fly
My god I don't want to write today. I did everything to avoid it...went for a walk, did a workout, baked a dutch baby, convinced my cat...
Feb 22, 20232 min read
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Hypnotic Happy Hour
Yesterday was a rough day for me. The night before I got swallowed by a trauma vortex I had been telling myself I was healed from. Then I...
Feb 20, 20232 min read
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Love, Me
Sweet sweet girl. Strong one, earnest one, hurting one. Your tears are nectar to me, your tenderness a precious gift, your anxiety and...
Feb 19, 20233 min read
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Symbols: the power of the psychophysical
Months after failing miserably to reclaim my projection in the Heart Warrior Council, I felt ready to try again. I needed to. I had to...
Feb 17, 20233 min read
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BDSM beyond the bedroom
I've been exploring BDSM ever since my kinkiness came out of the shadow and laid me flat. I watched movies, read, experimented with...
Feb 16, 20235 min read
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Persona, more formally
I recently applied to the masters in counseling psychology program at Pacifica Graduate Institute. It was hard to imagine applying...
Feb 15, 20239 min read
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Removing the mask of persona
I had a bit of renown by senior year of college at Tufts University. Having organized with Environmental Consciousness Outreach the three...
Feb 14, 20236 min read
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Taking the Red Pill & Living Ceremonially
I set out toward the river, to peer down from the look out point to where the salmon jump up the tiered stream. The salmon weren't...
Feb 13, 20235 min read
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Entranced by Interbeing & Belonging
Today I offer a hypnotic trance that invites you into a sense of shared sentience with Earth. It is resourcing, relaxing, and...
Feb 12, 20231 min read
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Dancing as spiritual practice & titrating flow (aka having good boundaries with God)
Today I had the immense pleasure of being danced, in much the same way I described beholding yesterday. I attended a fundraiser for Honk!...
Feb 11, 20234 min read
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The Flow State or being Mystery's Marionette
I couldn't help myself. Of all places, ecstatic dance is probably the most permissive of adults staring. Still, I felt naughty doing it....
Feb 10, 20233 min read
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The Importance of Performance
Yesterday I shared a bit of a dream -- a master of ceremonies is so captivating that everyone else falls under his spell and does as he...
Feb 9, 20233 min read
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A Council Share
Today was my turn on the email council that we keep as a part of the Soulcraft Apprenticeship Initiation Program with Animas Valley...
Feb 8, 20233 min read
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Ecocentric Hypnosis
Perhaps you’ve heard about the passenger pigeon, a creature who has become a sort of poster child for the human proclivity to extinguish...
Feb 6, 20234 min read
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A regular offering to feed interbeing
It is a beautiful day, past 70, the sun somehow soft. Hard to believe that just a couple of days ago the trees were gloved with ice. Now,...
Feb 5, 20234 min read
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