Nature-based spirituality
One of the gifts of a nature-based orientation to life is that we can take small steps, one at a time, to improve our own lives. We don’t have to overhaul our entire lives, relocate or give up what we really to do like in order to take steps toward a more grounded and fulfilled life. One step at a time….
Fairy Pools on the Isle of Skye, Scotland
Becoming Aware
How many times do we rush out of our homes to our cars and on to doing whatever we need to do without noticing much more than the weather?
Belonging
Belonging to a community is a fundamental need we all have.
Breathe deeply and enter through your heart's door, Where Stag and Salmon leap; where Hawk soars o'er the tor; Where Starry Bear journeys from dusk until dawn. Spiral the heavens! Time Untime lingers on.
Befriending the Wild
I’m a city girl, always have been. I live with my husband on a quarter-acre lot in a mid-size town in the midwest. I grew up with the automotive industry supporting my life through my father’s employment, then my husband’s and even my own. It’s been a long road for me to befriend the wild, to deconstruct my cement-and-steel orientation and to discover the wild one waiting for me. And it is so worth the journey.
Grief and Exile
We all have times of grief. Promises or dreams or wishes broken. Mourning the loss of what was, of what we thought would be or what we thought we had is part of life and can’t be avoided. But that is never the end of our story, and we get to write our future. Even when we are subject to circumstances out of our control (and they often are within our control), we have choices.
Healing and Returning to Wholeness
We are never blocked out of moving to wholeness. We are never so far gone that we can’t move into healing and discovering, maybe for the very first time, that we are truly wanted and needed.