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Creating Daily Rituals
There are so many ways to create rituals in our lives. We might engage in formal practices that shape our day to day lives, like making a cup of tea and sitting on our meditation cushion to engage with the world from a place of grounded presence. My personal relationship with ritual shifts over time, […]
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On Coming Home: an update
These past few years have been rough ones. So many people I know have made major life transitions, lost dear ones, confronted the realities of chronic illness, moved into the unknown. On the larger scale, we are living in a world that is stressed and wounded because of the ways that we humans have exploited […]
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Summer in the Garden
I realized the other day that I hadn’t posted since June. It’s summer in Maine, and the last thing that I want to do on a beautiful day is sit inside, so I thought that in lieu of a long blog post, I’d instead share some photographs that illustrate the summer so far. While it’s […]
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Celebrating Spring
While it may seem like spring will never come for those of us buried this winter under 6+ feet of snow, the earth is doing what it always does this time of year–it is thawing. The maple sap has started to flow; the birds are chattering in the bright sun of the morning; the squirrels […]
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Imbolc Light: Spiraling Out
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Today, I began the day with dance. The sun was bright outside and the energy in the room felt like spring to me. The set moved me to open up and reach upward, toward the sun, toward the cloudless sky, toward the emergence of spring. Though there are 8 foot piles of snow all around […]
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Announcing: Walk Your Edge–A Six-Month Journey of Earth Connection
One Saturday per month * May – October 2015 (May 2, June 20, July 18, August 1, September 12, October 31) 10am-6pm meeting in Portland ME fee $600 : sliding scale work-trade & time dollars are options; payment plan available Many of us have been working for years to make big changes in our hearts […]
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Listening to the Call
For most of my life, I have second-guessed myself, stood back to observe, avoided anything that might expose my lack of skills/knowledge/intelligence. I have taken the back seat, fumbled for words when asked to speak my mind, and generally been afraid of failing. Since 2013, I have been deeply asking what my true purpose here […]
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Honoring our ancestors
Outside tonight, a cold rain is falling, and we are likely to get our first hard freeze of the season. It seems fitting, given that we are moving rapidly from the upward, outward energy of summer to the inward, downward energy of winter. It is a time of reflection and conserving our energy. It is […]
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On Becoming a Radical Homemaker
This morning when I woke at 5:30, instead of going back to bed and trying to ignore the cat asking for attention, I picked up a book that had been languishing on the bottom of my library book pile for a few months. (It’s bad when you’re a librarian and can renew as many times […]
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Awakening the erotic
For many years, I have created small shrines and altars on every free surface in my house. I collect things like driftwood and heart-shaped stones to remind me of my connection with the all-encompassing life force of the earth. So it was a natural thing to create this small altar in the front of the […]