I feel privileged beyond description tonight. Last year I was fortunate to host musicians from Ireland that my sister had met while traveling there. Claire Roche, a harpist, vocalist and songwriter and her husband John Wilmott fly over here once a year and travel across the US bringing their Irish music,
I have an unusual but striking observation to share this day. In December of 2009 , just three months ago, we experienced a snowstorm in these mountains that was worse than any of the last 12 years. For nearly a week electricity was out, phones were out, roads were under feet of
I am moved tonight having just watched a CNN documentary called Her Name Was Steven, the story of Largo, Florida mayor Steve Stanton who very publicly changed from a man to a woman in 2007. Before the film began, CNN also interviewed a person who had undergone the same transition. I
Brother Wind is rattling the bones of my house big time, howling and haunting. Something in my own little brain has some vertigo today so I feel blown about on the inside too. We really are just one field, human and nature, I notice; what is going on inside noticeably
Einstein said that “You cannot solve a problem at the same level of thinking that created the problem.” I work with people regularly to help them move from one level of thinking to another – dreamwork, vision quests, oracular consultations, shamanic work are powerful movers for shifting thinking. And I
It has been occurring to me in a wide variety of ways recently that one has to be able to accept a whole lot of what we think of as “imperfection” in order to keep the heart open. I loaned my friend some books by a certain author and told her that
I spent the day with friends yesterday including my friend Karly, who will be giving birth to a little girl in the coming days. While at their home in Knoxville I heard birds singing – a sound I hadn’t heard yet up where I live on the mountain. Every
My favorite television night of the year is Oscar night. I love movies, and I love seeing the personalities who make the movies come out and interact. It is a chance to watch them be themselves rather than their characters. Last night I was particularly impressed with how genuine people
I believe the very first blog I wrote was about a question that kept posing itself in my mind all through the Christmas season, “Is redemption possible?” It seemed to be coming out of trying to finish grief over losses; like the teenage years of my precious, priceless younger daughter while I was
My Mom had a health incident and spent last night in the hospital. We think she’ll be ok. Lots of thoughts about mother and mothering have been up for me lately — even when watching the television or the news I seem to hear the word “mother” in a slightly elevated