We come to the longest night of the year. The dark lengthens, the light shifts. I awaken resolved to spend it in solitude and silence. There are plenty of opportunities for celebrating with others. I have them all sketched in my calendar....sunrise tea ceremony, sweat lodge, prayer vigils, fire circles. Instead, after a "peopled" week, … Continue reading Winter Solstice, 2024
Nothing has changed. Everything has changed.
My friends, we are in a grace period. We have about 2 months until the ground will rapidly shift under our feet. Most days I find myself lamenting. The rush by most mainstream news media to get back to normal— their blow by blow reporting of the daily news— just doesn't do justice to the … Continue reading Nothing has changed. Everything has changed.
When the Unthinkable happens. Again.
In November 2016 I was part of a writing residency at Collegeville, MN. At an election watch party that night, I sat with colleagues in numb disbelief as the midnight hour rang in Donald Trump as the next president. I went to bed with a foreboding sense of the swirling chaos and disorder that would … Continue reading When the Unthinkable happens. Again.
Bi-regional
Dear friends, as this tumultuous political season comes to a head in a few days, I sit looking out over a flaming red, orange and yellow (yes, all on the same tree) sugar maple tree in Ohio. The trees are in their Autumnal glory, spectacular in their last gasp before the winter winds blow away … Continue reading Bi-regional
A Love Affair
I am having a torrid and wild love affair. It's with a mountain range. I live at the tail end of the Rockies, in Northern New Mexico. We are the last stop before the range slims down and disappears somewhere above Santa Fe. As I walk along her Ponderosa trails, the intoxicating smells of vanilla … Continue reading A Love Affair
Anita Amstutz 