Please-Like-Me Dis-ease

I’ve suffered from the “please like me” dis-ease, in varying degrees of severity, for as long as I can remember. I’ve been bending backwards when I want to fold in. I’ve been saying yes when I desperately needed to say no. I’ve been carrying someone else’s weight...

Summer Solstice Prayer

I don’t want to celebrate only the “good” things. Today, the longest day of the year, I would like to celebrate all the times I’ve fallen. I’d like to honor those times (many times) I said the absolute wrong thing. For all the times I mis-stepped and fell....

For My Wild, Urgent Dreamers

I woke up this morning to a vision. It was gifted by Spirit. I normally don’t share these types of things. These kinds of gifts are often best kept close to my heart, intimate, unsaid, but understood. Sometimes there is magic in things unsaid, in experiences...

The Wild One

Only if you are very lucky will you be born with chaos close. Only if the stars row up single file to pour their magic into you on the day you are born, only if your first breath synchs perfectly with some greater rhythm, will you have a taste of this madness. It’s...

Vulnerability is the Best Defense

Only in our attempts to hold it all together (as if there were something TO hold together) do we run the risk of things falling apart. Only when we fool ourselves into thinking life can be tidy or that life plays by the rules do we, ourselves, end up fooled. There is...