Sweet sweet girl. Strong one, earnest one, hurting one. Your tears are nectar to me, your tenderness a precious gift, your anxiety and...

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...

I've been exploring BDSM ever since my kinkiness came out of the shadow and laid me flat. I watched movies, read, experimented with...

I recently applied to the masters in counseling psychology program at Pacifica Graduate Institute. It was hard to imagine applying...

I had a bit of renown by senior year of college at Tufts University. Having organized with Environmental Consciousness Outreach the three...

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...

Today I offer a hypnotic trance that invites you into a sense of shared sentience with Earth. It is resourcing, relaxing, and...

Today I had the immense pleasure of being danced, in much the same way I described beholding yesterday. I attended a fundraiser for Honk!...

I couldn't help myself. Of all places, ecstatic dance is probably the most permissive of adults staring. Still, I felt naughty doing it....

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...

Today was my turn on the email council that we keep as a part of the Soulcraft Apprenticeship Initiation Program with Animas Valley...

Perhaps you’ve heard about the passenger pigeon, a creature who has become a sort of poster child for the human proclivity to extinguish...

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,...

I'm reading back over some of my musings from the past year, trying to drum up something to write about, to complete the fourth day of...

It is 8pm, later than I'd typically be on my computer, doing something like work. And without an idea of what I'll write about. So I...

Yesterday I wrote a little about the practice of council. The barest bones of a description of council is humans sitting in a circle...

This is not at all how I imagined this challenge, to write a post on this blog everyday for the month of February, beginning. I pictured...

[Another post from the archives of graduate school. Like The Knowing of Blood, this piece was for an ecopsychology course. The assignment...

[I wrote this piece in the spring of 2020 for a course in ecopsychology when I was a graduate student at Pacifica. I've left all the...

[I wrote this piece in April 2022 for Westwords, a publication of the Animas Valley Institute. If you don't know some of the vocabulary...