Everyday I don my snow boots, my neck gaiter, wool hat with the flaps, boiled wool mittens and puffy down jacket to walk into the Carson National Forest. It is .5 miles from the Shepherds cabin where I am living this winter. At 8,500', tucked among the mountains of Northern New Mexico, the snow flies … Continue reading Tracks

Photos on Pexels.com It's been a hard year. Each day a new challenge to stay soul balanced. Each day so much lost. Quite frankly, the swiftness of the storm's onset and the ferocity took all of our breath away. I tally in my mind the millions of acres of forest charred, black lives lost in … Continue reading Everyone Sang

The call is to wake up. Be here now. Be present. Not to be cliché, but we are in deep do-do as a country and as a human community, friends. The best thing we can do is love the small, the tiny, that which is indigenous to each moment, each place we inhabit....and let it … Continue reading The Code of the Universe is Written in Beauty

  A Blessing When the rhythm of the heart becomes hectic,Time takes on the strain until it breaks;Then all the unattended stress falls inOn the mind like an endless, increasing weight. The light in the mind becomes dim.Things you could take in your stride beforeNow become laborsome events of will. Weariness invades your spirit.Gravity begins … Continue reading For One who is Exhausted