Birth of A Pea There’s a recent story about an 8-year-old girl in Seattle who has befriended the neighborhood crows, and they bring her gifts. Now, I tend to swoon over all sorts of positive inter-species communication (bonus ones at the end of the column), but I love this example of crows bringing gifts, for […]
She Walks the Earth: The Line Curved
The Line and the Labyrinth I sipped and siphoned every last drop of her noodle soup, devouring it like a starving child. She patted the dirt floor inviting me to rest. I put one of my packs down as a pillow but where my head landed was her awaiting lap. She had seen me pushing […]
Connecting Dots on the Synchronicity Trail: Rubies and Reflections
We call them dots. Their stories are one of the ways my husband got to know me in our early days. I would say, “You want to hear something wild that happened?” He would get quiet and listen intently as I’d tell him about the strings of seeming coincidences that added up to meaning beyond […]
Confessions of a Free-Range Spiritualist: Beyond the Pew
free-range (adjective) kept in natural conditions, with freedom of movement spiritualist (noun) a person who is concerned with or insists on the spiritual side of things. I like to call myself a free-range spiritualist. I’m not really a Unitarian, even though my husband and I were married by a Unitarian minister. And I’m not a […]
She Walks The Earth: The First Step
A year ago. Colorado. It is the end of a women’s yoga retreat. I don’t know anyone at the start but six days later I am nude and riddled with laughter as my breasts bounce, pivot and smack against my sweaty skin. They are flopping so wildly it’s possible they’ll fly right off, but I […]
I Spy Wonder: Designing A Life With Wonder
I spy with my little eye…red: ball, lips, umbrella, red velvet cake. When I wonder, and when I remember people, events, and things that bring me wonder, I find myself walking in love and in awe and feeling beautifully and humbly human and small and powerful all at once. It is also when I am […]