The way we tend to ourselves and create patterns of care or disdain is far more foundational than we imagine for becoming the next more evolved and impactful version of ourselves. And while typical ‘self care’ regimens are important, just as (if not more) critical is the way we acknowledge…

She was dying of disconnection and thirst. Literally. She was one of the first things I noticed upon arriving at my new house in southwest Colorado. Why had they let her die of thirst? Don’t people see her majesty? I wondered. She’d been standing alone for decades, no doubt. Hard…

Humbled By Love I’ve been humbled by love so many ways and times in the past few years that I’m beginning to believe that it’s only and all about love. I ask myself what else could matter, really? I’ve discovered, the hard way, that love is essentially the ability to…

What is Shadow? There’s so much talk about trauma healing these days, I often mistakenly assume that everyone knows what I mean when I say ‘shadow.’ And in truth, what I call ‘shadow’ might not even be equated with trauma healing in the traditional sense. You know, the ‘bad’ stuff. But if shadow…

Because I listen, nature beckons. This tree spoke to me, as I gazed at her curiously, wondering why her brown furled oak leaves clung to her branches, even as the snow fell. “I kept my leaves because they are pretty,” she said. Yes they are, I replied. …

Thank god I’m finally back, I thought. I landed in Southwest Colorado after being gone for nearly a decade. The wildfires, toxic air, power outages, drought and then the isolation of the pandemic drove me from northern California. …

Watching snowfall for the sixth day of a winter storm in the last few days of 2022, I realized I hadn’t shoveled this much snow in 20 years. Then, a blizzard had dropped 6 feet of snow in 36 hours at my rural Boulder County home. I was resentful on…

There’s something magical and mysterious, and somber, about the darkest days and longest nights of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, the Winter Solstice. The ancients imagined the Sun stood still, and attempted to capture the diminished sun’s rays through neolithic monuments, such as Newgrande in Ireland and Maeshowe in…

Have you ever felt like everything was going great, and wondered when the other shoe was going to drop? In the afterglow of my ‘day with God,’ in early 2021, everything had begun to feel like magic. …