Rhythms

I like to think I’m in control. I like to think I know what I want, where I’m going, and how I’m going to get there. I like to think I have control over this living, breathing creature that is my life. I like to think I’m the one riding it. I hold the reigns. I also...

No Parachute

Change can be tough. There’s a space between your old life, and the one you’re living into, that is full of uncertainty. It’s one of the most uncomfortable places to be. It feels like part of you might drop away. Part of you or all of you might cease to exist! Have...

Make Your Own Medicine Tree

Trees can hear us. They know we’re here. Especially in the winter, it’s tough to remember that these magnificent beings are still very much alive. They seem dead, dark, still. But they are most definitely awake, alive, and sensing all we do. I like to use trees for...

The Big Melt

I’ve been feeling a lot of fear lately. Everything seems so up in the air. Uncertainties abound. What used to seem solid and reliable, seems to be melting away. Are you feeling that way? Things that you once depended on, certainties you thought were concrete, even...

Returning to Love

The truth is, love is all around us. We are made of love. We return to love. There is nothing but love. That’s what all the wisest sages, saints, yogis, and dogs say. Love is the fiber of our Universe. “It’s the cause and effect of all things”, as Rumi would say. But...

The Giveaway

Giving opens us. Giving clears us out for new delights. It creates a vacuum. The Universe abhors a vacuum. It will rush to fill it. When we give from the deepest place, the place that knows there is never any risk of loosing what is essential, we know freedom. When...