by JoAnne Dodgson | Apr 21, 2024 | Blog
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...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Apr 1, 2024 | Blog
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...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Mar 1, 2024 | Blog
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...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Jan 1, 2024 | Blog
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 wave...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Dec 19, 2023 | Blog
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...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Nov 24, 2023 | Blog
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....
