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Homecoming

[Another post from the archives of graduate school. Like The Knowing of Blood, this piece was for an ecopsychology course. The assignment...

The Knowing of Blood: Offerings to a Participatory Cosmology

[I wrote this piece in the spring of 2020 for a course in ecopsychology when I was a graduate student at Pacifica. I've left all the...

A Nature Based-Map of this Human Psyche

[I wrote this piece in April 2022 for Westwords, a publication of the Animas Valley Institute. If you don't know some of the vocabulary...

Songs for Wholeness

The last six months have been impossibly challenging for me, and my capacity to hold myself, to see the wider perspective, to root in the...

Seduced by Sun

I am positively obsessed with direct sunlight. It has a power over me, so generous, and deliciously demanding. Sit here and be pleasured....

I am Earth's submissive

Let me start with a caveat that I know essentially nothing about the field and practice of Dominance and submission. Don't be fooled by...

Confessions of a recovering good white person: An environmental autobiography

…The time will come when you, too, have to drop all the ways you’ve made yourself worth loving, and finally learn how to sit quietly...

Unaccomplished pleasure

Here's something I do. When I get turned on by something new, that resonates with some unsung vibration in me that I can feel gathering,...

Prayer

I admit and I am not ashamed: mostly I pray when I’m desperate, when the demeaning voices in my head have built a well so deep and dark...