- Feb 27
- 3 min
Talking Dirty with Earth
I'm walking in the greenbelt on this beautiful sunny spring day. The breeze whips crab apple, Texas barberry, and mountain laurel nectars...
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- Feb 26
- 3 min
The Song of the Soul
Poetry is like the dream, always a step ahead of us. We fall in love with a poem well before we know what it means. Years later, after...
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- Feb 25
- 1 min
Love letter to the peas, the Fabulous fabacaea
Of all the specimens I collected, plastered to my index cards with packing tape, writing the latin and common names, the family, it was...
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- Feb 24
- 5 min
May the birds of your attention truly land
I'm sitting at the kitchen table again, checking my email, when a mourning dove lands on the railing of the balcony. Now, I know the...
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- Feb 23
- 4 min
Believing your life matters
Right around this time a year ago I got slammed by my first full on somatic trauma flashback. I actually pretty much brought it on...
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- Feb 22
- 2 min
Casting yet another fly
My god I don't want to write today. I did everything to avoid it...went for a walk, did a workout, baked a dutch baby, convinced my cat...
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- Feb 20
- 2 min
Hypnotic Happy Hour
Yesterday was a rough day for me. The night before I got swallowed by a trauma vortex I had been telling myself I was healed from. Then I...
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- Feb 19
- 3 min
Love, Me
Sweet sweet girl. Strong one, earnest one, hurting one. Your tears are nectar to me, your tenderness a precious gift, your anxiety and...
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- Feb 17
- 3 min
Symbols: the power of the psychophysical
Months after failing miserably to reclaim my projection in the Heart Warrior Council, I felt ready to try again. I needed to. I had to...
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- Feb 16
- 5 min
BDSM beyond the bedroom
I've been exploring BDSM ever since my kinkiness came out of the shadow and laid me flat. I watched movies, read, experimented with...
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- Feb 15
- 9 min
Persona, more formally
I recently applied to the masters in counseling psychology program at Pacifica Graduate Institute. It was hard to imagine applying...
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- Feb 14
- 6 min
Removing the mask of persona
I had a bit of renown by senior year of college at Tufts University. Having organized with Environmental Consciousness Outreach the three...
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- Feb 13
- 5 min
Taking the Red Pill & Living Ceremonially
I set out toward the river, to peer down from the look out point to where the salmon jump up the tiered stream. The salmon weren't...
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- Feb 12
- 1 min
Entranced by Interbeing & Belonging
Today I offer a hypnotic trance that invites you into a sense of shared sentience with Earth. It is resourcing, relaxing, and...
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- Feb 11
- 4 min
Dancing as spiritual practice & titrating flow (aka having good boundaries with God)
Today I had the immense pleasure of being danced, in much the same way I described beholding yesterday. I attended a fundraiser for Honk!...
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- Feb 10
- 3 min
The Flow State or being Mystery's Marionette
I couldn't help myself. Of all places, ecstatic dance is probably the most permissive of adults staring. Still, I felt naughty doing it....
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- Feb 9
- 3 min
The Importance of Performance
Yesterday I shared a bit of a dream -- a master of ceremonies is so captivating that everyone else falls under his spell and does as he...
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- Feb 8
- 3 min
A Council Share
Today was my turn on the email council that we keep as a part of the Soulcraft Apprenticeship Initiation Program with Animas Valley...
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- Feb 6
- 4 min
Ecocentric Hypnosis
Perhaps you’ve heard about the passenger pigeon, a creature who has become a sort of poster child for the human proclivity to extinguish...
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- Feb 5
- 4 min
A regular offering to feed interbeing
It is a beautiful day, past 70, the sun somehow soft. Hard to believe that just a couple of days ago the trees were gloved with ice. Now,...
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