Today’s Awakening: A New Day Rises

Rooster crows pink light weaves through dark green pine boughs, Mist leaves her dew on the frost covered ground soaking my boots and soul, The smell of hay and earth fills the air as steam rushes from wild nostrils, A new morning, a new day rises

The Art of Leadership

                        Today’s Awakening: I woke this morning with this thought, what is leadership? In light of the responses to the events in Paris and world at large as well as the USA’s current crop of potential Presidential “leaders,” which is quite frankly quite frightening […]

elephant journal Article-Wildfires From The Inside Out

I wish I could figure out how to embed and elephant journal (yes all lower case as advised by the crew at ej) published article, but I’m not that savvy, so I’ll simply give you the elephant link and let you find your way to my first ej article! My original title was “When Lightening Strikes,” […]

The Box of Sorrow

With the death toll mounting -click the link to read an article and see a haunting video about the Valley Fire-and the animals still being found alive amidst the rubble, I have moments of feeling completely overwhelmed by the stories I am hearing and reading. I wrote a story picked up by Elephant Journal, in an effort to move […]

When Lightening Strikes…

Holy Gratitude. The Elephant Journal article is live! I spent the day creating a Box of Community Sorrow for an event for Valley Fire victims tomorrow. I surfaced from that deep meditation and found this email: “Your Elephant Journal article has been published!” Once again the reminder…duality. It came with these very helpful tips on how […]

Creative Expression: Moving Through Collective Grief…

So many of you have written to me of your feelings of helplessness in witnessing the devastation caused by the Lake County fires and wondering how you can help. I have been feeling helpless too, so in a meditation, I asked how I could be of support today and this came through. At the end […]

Shall we dance?

Meet Crystal. From the moment I was introduced to HER, I felt a connection and deep desire to get to know HER. She resides at the therapeutic riding center where I am working. I asked to work with her, to see if she felt a connection to me. It’s been a couple of months, since […]

Dancing the Mystery with DreamWeaver Sunday

  Dancing with DreamWeaver Sunday. A birthday gift for my dad’s 79th. He’s four months cancer free! DreamWeaver Sunday is a beautiful mare I rescued from a very bad situation and a nasty horse trader. I have no history about her except that she’d had a 9-year old baby that had been with her and […]

It’s Time For Adventure

I just got off a call with my Creative Awakenings Approved Facilitators. Wow! These women ROCK AND ROLL! We spent a juicy couple of hours brainstorming and throwing ideas in the Creative Awakenings stew pot. What’s cooking? An online offering just for you, fellow travelers.  A mini-adventure. Think September…busy days of summer have come to […]

Groundlessness. Surfing the big waves.

Today’s Awakening: I’ve been thinking a lot about the idea of “Groundlessness,” or as Pema Chodron says, “The idea that the rug has been pulled out from under you.” It’s funny, but that’s how I have been describing my life these last 6 years to friends. “I feel like I get my feet back under […]