Black Lakes

Black Lakes

I’ve just recently just returned from my annual solo in the woods (in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness). I am still steeped in the stillness of my week alone in the wilds. It was a different kind of experience than in years past. I was deeply turned...
Summer Solstice Ritual

Summer Solstice Ritual

We’re walking quickly towards the Summer Solstice. A doorway of light. Gateway to infuse every wish, desire, fear, problem, intricacy of human-being. This longest day illuminates all. It doesn’t choose what parts of us deserve the light, what parts of life have earned...
Love Come Home

Love Come Home

There is a revolution happening in our bodies. The sacred wants a home. In your flesh. In your bones. In your breath. Filling your eyes. Heaven wants to taste earth. Earth wants to taste heaven. The time of separation is over. We get to have it all: the dark and the...
New Moon in Aries

New Moon in Aries

The moon is dark but I can feel her throbbing in the black sky. A red pulse echoing a lineage of destruction. The necessary chaos to birth stars, spring, me. I wiggle my body between two trees and breathe in the smell of their bark. Pressed in between their bodies, I...
Green Riot

Green Riot

I allow the hard places in me to be like the early spring ice. I don’t try to make them different. I let those places in me that are strong, fighting, insolent be. I feel their edges as sharp diamond knives that slice through stone. I feel my edges harsh, unyielding,...