A Spiritual Journey Into Earth Community
Years and years ago, I found this small gray stone on the beach at Lake Michigan, only 1 centimeter in diameter. It seemed like a fossil of some kind, but I never identified it. It just felt incredibly unique and I saved it all these years, storing it in a small crochet bag that just [ ]
I planted this Lapins Cherry seven years ago, and did all kinds of care for it over the years. Holistic sprays, pruning, copper spray this spring. But we only had one cherry ever to eat from it, and each year it continues to have problems. Each time, I looked up what to do, and tried [ ]
With the heat, and the need to tend the vegetables, I ve rather neglected the pond this year. I haven t spent as many hours just sitting nearby looking for frogs and enjoying the plants. Today I walked back to take a look, and discovered that we have tadpoles! And I hadn t seen ones like this before, [ ]
This month I am experiencing my first birthday without my mother, Mitzy. She took her final breaths on June 1st at the age of 92, surrounded by five of her nine children. She had been drifting away for several months, and we could no longer communicate over the phone. I haven t been well enough to [ ]
It is Solstice morning, and as always these days, I look out the back door to check on the robin s nest. I find the four nestlings have all jumped out of the nest and are perching on the beam. They preen their feathers and move around. Parent robin flies in to join them. We can t [ ]
The border I created next to the road is perhaps the most beautiful it has ever been. Right now, Siberian Irises are blooming in their blue-purple glory, set off by the cloud of yellow of the Turkish rocket, volunteer white daisies and a patch of white irises, along with the green of other perennial leaves [ ]
Today is Imbolc, the cross-quarter day in the cycle of the year between winter solstice and spring equinox. It celebrates the new stirrings of life under the cold of snow. When I took a walk this morning, I saw the well-traveled paths of deer in our back and front yards, and decided to follow the [ ]
I have much less energy than I used to. I notice it in my spiritual practices. I don t seem to do rituals anymore such as lighting candles or building a fire in the yard. I haven t written a blog post for a month. All that I still do is to write in my journal each [ ]
At 4 a.m. this morning, I woke in the dark of the night to pee. On the way back to bed, I saw a shadow outside the window. It was a bright night, with white snow on the ground, and a clouded sky backlit by a full moon. I opened the curtain and saw that [ ]
In the midst of cruelty and oppression, where does hope emerge? For me, it was seeing the protesters in Portland, Oregon dress in inflatable frog costumes, exposing the lie that Portland was a war zone, or that protesters were violent. In the face of armed and masked ICE agents, people responded with this creative and [ ]