Coyote! Twice! Wild and calm. Close to the trail. lying, scratching, sitting, unconcerned and peaceful, curious. Later down the trail - Dogs. Robust and frightened. Alone. Sea anemone plant with tiny caterpillars asleep in the leaves, tiny flies pollinating busily, each beautiful waving tendril...
Perhaps it is the focus on what could go wrong for 17 hours straight in the wilderness first aid training class this weekend, but today I feel sad and nervous. for the fate of the world. for the fate of my kid. will she even be...
White Like Me - Tim Wise "Did you hear about the racist guy who told a joke because he thought everyone he was talking to was white?” My mom is black. "I'm so sorry. I didn't know. If you say you're sorry then you know it was wrong...
When you know the fourfoil in all its season root and leaf and flower, by sight and scent and seed, then you may learn its true naem, knowing its being, which is more than its use. What, after all, is the use of you? or...
So that just happened. The first conversation about how the media in the machine is trying to get you. You doing 'What Liv and Maddie character Am I" quizzes are not a bad thing at all. harmless-ish. but the people who made those quizzes made them...
I am feeling restless and annoyed…CPE says “…int he resent the topside world and ideas pale and for a time we shall be restless and unsatisfied for the satisfaction, the fulfillment is in the process of being born in the inner reality….What we hunger for...
Well lookout that. if i just switched around my values 180 from always valued to least value, then we’d be in our culture. no fucking wonder i don’t value ‘ power and authority / in THIS culture! and how ironic and fortuitous? that now those...
I open my eyes and wake up to the sound of birdsong. There is a glint of dawn through the window in all her radiant colors. I slip on my robe and slippers and pad downstairs of my Oakland home. I open the gate to my...
I was in a fancy house in Scandinavia. Someone I knew was putting on a wedding. I didn't know the people just the person organizing it. It was this huge tall tower of a 'staircase' that was like a never-ending snow cliff / trail /...
In all of us lives a story. A story of our unique gifts, a story of wandering, wondering, searching, finding, becoming, giving, receiving, and transcending. A story of what it means to be alive and how it happens that one comes alive. It is a universal...