Celebrating

Celebrating

I spent this weekend at a beloved friend’s wedding. Her community, and that of her new husband, gathered to celebrate their joy, their love, and the birth of their new family. There are primal forces that lend their power and blessing to any birth. Devas of...
Happy birthday to…all your creations

Happy birthday to…all your creations

Tomorrow is my birthday. All week, I have dreamed of giving birth, of being born. Birth is a violently propulsive process. The push and thrust, the bloody, messy explosiveness of it – these are pale rumors, grunted intimations of the perilous journey into...
Happy Birthday, Baby

Happy Birthday, Baby

This week I had the amazing privilege of being present (although we were on opposite sides of the country) at the birth of a baby girl. And then the delight of connecting with her and her mother a few days after they returned home from the hospital where she was born....