
I returned from LA one day ago and have felt epically ungrounded since. With a list of things I should be doing, how to ground and come back to earth after several weeks, months actually, of floating this way and that? Chop wood. Haul water. Or, cook, clean, and listen to Bob Marley as the…
Packing, cleaning, and getting ready to head back to New Mexico. A last minute trip back up to Griffith Observatory, one of my favorite places in LA.
Happy Strawberry Full Moon Summer Solstice! May you move into your future with clarity and leave behind all that no longer serves you. May you recognize the magic in your life and thereby create more of it.
What to say when someone you love can’t find the way out of their own darkness? What to write when each news story is more tragic than the last and there are no answers. That is where I’ve been lately and why I haven’t written. Instead, I prayed. Please help us to find the light…
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