Getting older is often seen largely as an exercise in letting go, gracefully and easily (you hope), from those aspects of life that have slipped out of your capabilities or interests. There is so much more to it than that! Think of standing in a circle and being invited to join hands with the person beside you. What do you … Read More
Bow Drill Fire
Loved by the sun, a tree receives warm summer light, makes wood: sun’s heat held year by counted year within its rings In your calloused grasp you take the unformed fragrant wood An edge of sharpened metal in your hand you offer ancient gratitude to those who kept and taught these ways for we who hunger still to know. Wood … Read More
I love Nature, but humans…? – not so much
Not long ago I listened to a young person talk for a time, then commented, “It sounds like you love nature and hate people.” She responded with a simple, firm, “Yes.” This young person is not alone in her feelings. Perhaps you too (almost certainly you too!) have had such feelings. Take your grief (anything that is not peace is … Read More
Take the Steps You Can See
I was a free range kid. When I was four years old, my father bought a piece of raw land on a small wild lake in Ontario. To my young eyes, and my young feet, it was a long way from the end of the road to that piece of land. As I helped to create a trail through the … Read More
Sensory Doorways to Nonordinary Reality, #3
Part 3: Awakening by Altering the Movement of Time Ordinary reality is what you experience through five physical senses, limited to three dimensions, constrained by linear time. When you expand beyond any of those limitations in a conscious manner, you’re working with non-ordinary reality. You have seen in the first two of these Sensory Doorways articles that it is easy … Read More
If he can do that…
A few years ago I saw a video of a man who lived by himself on a lake in Alaska, in a cabin he had built from the trees he found there. It was small, with basic furnishings he had made and a well-designed kitchen. He had two dogs and a small herd of goats. In the opening scene he … Read More
No winter blahs!
Here we are, looking through a misty window at a combination of short days, grey skies, humidity, and what seems like a constant drip. Winter can seem like a hard time to enjoy being outside, when you’re near the Salish Sea off BC’s Wet Coast. Excuses are abundant: it’s too cold for gardening, too grey for feeling good, too wet … Read More
The most beautiful day of all time
Today is the most beautiful day of all time. Consider for a moment: Was there beauty created in the world yesterday? Is beauty being created in the world today? The answer to both of these questions is of course a resounding “Yes!” You may be thinking, “But what about all the unbeautiful things that are happening in the world? Do … Read More
Forever
My tears taste of the ocean, my breath remembers mountain winds. My bones are kin with stone and soil, my hair with grass and fern and leaf. My blood claims its ties to the sun through heat and living pulse and red. This body came to be, has grown, will age and then, like all, will die; will rise … Read More
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