Closing the Circle
My 95-year-old aunt died last night, peacefully, in my sister's home, where she had lived these past few years. She was my mother's older sister, and the last remaining member of her generation of our family. She was also the mother that my own mother wasn't able to...
Live Your Own Story
A couple of weeks before my son Jesse’s fourth birthday, he leaned over our kitchen table, crayon in hand, carefully writing his birthday wish-list in crooked block letters on a sheet of drawing paper. From time to time he’d stop, lay his head down on the table and...
Call your stories home…
It's the beginning of November, and the maple trees outside my window are stripping for winter in a shimmer of autumn gold. Nature tells the season's story, and foreshadows the stories of the seasons to come. What stories have you been telling yourself this year? How...
Down to Earth: Making things happen
Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in. --Leonard Cohen, Anthem It's a chilly October morning. Outside my window, the mountain's powerful face is veiled in soft, shifting clouds. A...
This business of chakras…
This post was originally published in November, 2009 as Whose Chakra Is It Anyway. In a session with a client a while ago, I described the chakras of her business, and how they related to some problems she was experiencing. If you're wondering how chakras and business...
Pass the ketchup, and hand me my crown…
For the past seven weeks, in Sovereignty Kindergarten, we've played with crowns and capes, with energy building blocks and tools, Devas, qualities and essences to explore what it means to be the queens and kings of our own kingdoms. We've learned energy technologies...
Pattern-Makers, Creative Hearts & Home
Over the past week I've had conversations with a few of my very creative friends about how we create. What are the essential elements that support us in being creative in our daily lives? We are all creative. It's in our spiritual DNA. So why do so many of us feel...
Remembering Hiroshima
On August 6th, 1945, the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. An estimated 140,000 people died in the aftermath. Today, the city of Hiroshima leads the movement for world peace. I am proud to be named for this city, which has transformed a legacy of...
There’s Wholeness in Holes
At the end of our first class of Sovereignty Kindergarten, I gave the wonderful people in our group a homework assignment: To make a physical space that celebrates and honors them. Something that reminds them, in a concrete way, of everything that makes them who they...
Going Away
SUNDAY POEM GOING AWAY Strolling on the beach with my son yesterday, sun licking our faces, a sparkling sea washed over our feet. I breathed a prayer: Thank you. Thank you for this day. Fronds of seaweed licked the tidal sands, flickered, receded-- returned twirling...