Can a Solar Eclipse Take Your Voice Away?
The birds may know something we don’t.
What We Carry
A living archive of inheritance, trauma, memory, healing, and the body as keeper of history.
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What Survival Gave Me
Much of what I love about myself now came out of things I would never wish on another person, certainly not another child.
LUNAR MEDICINE — ISSUE NO. 13 The Fine Line: Endurance & the Self
On the difference between the burning that gives light and the burning that consumes us.
Thoughts Post Lodge & Herbal Allies for the New Moon in Cancer
Field notes from Moon Lodge, a grandmother ritual, and three herbal allies for the season
Spiritual Fertility Summer Camp: Reading the Cycle
Learning to read the menstrual cycle through the lens of Chinese medicine.
Solstice Field Notes: When the Most Yang Day of the Year Insists We Go Still
The solstice is handed down to us as a feast of light—the longest day, the sun suspended at its zenith, the apex of what the old cosmologies named yang.
Field Medicine Kits for grief, family triggers, and the wounds we carry.
What I carried in my pockets at Arlington, and why the first medicine for grief may be learning how not to leave the wounded behind.
The Only Photograph Where I Can Feel His Love
On burying my father at Arlington, and what war leaves inside a family.
Digging Foundations, Unearthing Ghosts
Trauma, Grief, and the Inheritance of the Unspoken
The Children of Combat Veterans Carry the War Home
Burying My Father at Arlington and the Cost of Untreated PTSD Memorial Day asks Americans to remember the dead. This year, that remembering is no longer abstract for me.