Grandmother Corn is an Ancient Onewho shares the medicine ofplentyenoughnesslush nourishmentabundance Everyone's included in the bountiful sharingnobody's left out of the beauty and richnesswalls don't separate the haves from have-notsthere is nothing you have to do...

Solstice is a particular alignment between our earth and sun, a cosmic happening that shapes unique seasonal shifts in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. For centuries, humans have been honoring Solstice in remarkable ways in diverse cultures and lands. In a...

I'm moving home. It's a big leap ~ from here to there, bridging endings with beginnings, and reorienting my inner landscape in relationship with the physical world. My quests for home, to find my people, to live my passions and purposes, have led to many shifts...

A flowing river of Elk leapt over a barbed wire fence. Awed by the sight, I pulled my car to the side of the road and rolled down my window to listen and watch. The herd was made up of at least one hundred elk, a multi-generational group, still adorned with thick...

Elders say the wheel of life is turning in the direction of regeneration, a time to re-seed our inner landscapes and physical world with love, harmony, and balance. The out-of-balance ways are coming undone and falling apart. We are standing in a threshold between...

In the threshold between our earth's seasons, we gather the gifts of what is and has been while moving with the momentum of change. Each step we take, every choice we make, each thought we think and word that we speak, shapes what's coming alive in our inner...

Today I saw a butterflyher blue speckled wingsglistened in the sunlightthe magic of her metamorphosisdanced around in the winds She flew over the sagebrushand landed on red sandy soilresting awhileopening and closing her wingsa silent rhythmic drumbeatsending...

Solstice, Equinox, and New Moon are my cherished holidays. I'm drawn toward these transitional passages, awed by their essential part in creation, curious about the purposes and effects of such vast and ancient natural cycles. The shifting of seasons, the turning of...

I'm heading west on a roadtrip to visit an Elephant Sanctuary. For years, I've told friends I might leave everything behind and go to Africa and live with the elephants! Though I haven't made that leap, elephants have taken up residence in my heart. I'm thrilled to...

  We are in between Equinox and Solstice, a passage between seasons, a transitional space that bridges what has been with what is coming into being. There are diverse cultural traditions that mark this transitional time with ceremonies and celebrations,...

  "I don't think I can do it," I whispered, tears stuck in my throat. Jaguar stirred, yawning and stretching. She leaned over the tree branch, glancing toward me. "Can't do what?" she asked. "I don't think I can change. Again." Weighted down by exhaustion and...

What would it be like to have a world of relationships free of judgments, hierarchies, and fears? Soak in the medicines, the gifts shared in our ceremony, about weaving relationships with regard for everyone's well-being, with collaboration, love, spaciousness and...