Soul Dreams Need Retreat

This will be the third year in a row I will go into the Boundary Waters solo. I’ve done a lot of solo journeys like this, but in 2011 I started to become very intentional about these journeys. I was initiated into a lineage that required that I take a journey to...

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...

A Kingdom of One’s Own

I believe that one of the most precious things a woman can have is sovereignty over herself. We should guard this as the richest ruby, the clearest diamond, the brightest emerald in the world. Without sovereignty, we are dust. We are particles floating in air. There...

Dancing With Questions

Sometimes, we must put our doing down. We must relieve ourselves from our buzzing and flying to be still in mystery. To be alone in vastness. We must let ourselves be swallowed by unknowing. There are questions that swallow us whole, and it should be this way. There...