I wrote this poem the day before the full moon. I forgot about the moon. I was busy. I was distracted by political upheavel. I was concerned with how my life was going how my healing was going I was judgemental of my garden chaos. I was critical of my lack of desire to weed […]

We have several apple trees on our land. There is one very large tree beneath which we sit when we have our classes. When I first moved here to this land, I would go out under this tree and my hair would often get caught in the limbs hanging down. The apple was begging me […]

I planted some kambocha squash starts in the spring and they have grown all over the place. Lots of gigantic leaves and male flowers…but I couldn’t see any female flowers. I felt a sadness like I had failed as a squash gardener. And then yesterday, some friends came to visit and we walked out in […]

This year the garden has grown wilder and wilder as the summer goes on. All the rain of spring supported all the plants to grow in abundance….some wanted and others not so much. Years ago I decided that a well-groomed garden with plants in rows neatly ordered was making me crazy. I didn’t want to […]

Happy Samhain-Halloween!  Every year at this time, I create an ancestor altar.  Photos and mementos of those that have gone before are placed on the altar. In past years, I have journeyed to  connect with those that are no longer in physical form.  This year I have sensed the presents of my ancestors well before […]

I have always been an optimistic person. And yet, life experiences have created patterns of resentment in me that have affected my well-being. I have learned to be more honest about my life and what I am feeling and experiencing. People write about spiritual bypassing. This is the idea that we don’t allow ourselves to […]

It is just about Summer Solstice of 2020. What a year it has been! Pandemics, zoom classes, mask wearing, social distancing, staying home, day after day…..it has been a year of transforming what appears to be chaos into wild abundance. It has been a year of not knowing so much and of trusting that things […]

I am an herbalist because of nettle. There is nettle growing all over Whidbey Island where I live. It is abundant and wild. It’s everywhere!! I have a patch growing under my Douglas fir trees and I have quite a bit growing in our garden. (Wild garden!) Sister Spinster, Stinging Nettle…What a plant! If there […]

Greetings, Everyone, I am recording this essay I wrote, “The Old Way is the New Way” to support a cultivation of being connected to all of life and that this may support us to move forward in the world with compassion and grace. May it be in Beauty. Good Health and Well-Being and Abundant Green […]

I have been reading and thinking, meditating and journeying, worrying and contemplating about the coronavirus. I have a great deal of curiosity about this circumstance. It appears that there is a crisis…a global crisis. It appears that there is a terrible thing going on. Is this true? What is really happening? One of the things […]