Drinking the Tears of the World ~ Start Close In
One morning a few weeks ago something became clear to me: I needed to work closer to home. I live on Vancouver Island, on the west coast of Canada—we don’t have many black people here. What we do have is our indigenous people, who have been living here, in this ecosystem, for over four thousand years.
Read MoreCalling All Humans
Dear friends: Last week I did something I have never done before. I sent out an email to 500 carefully selected people on my list. Here is what I said to them: “You don’t fall into any particular category–some of you I have not connected with in a long time. I am reaching out to you simply as human beings, who like me, are facing an immense global crisis right now. This crisis has many interweaving dimensions. I am focusing here on what we are calling ‘the climate...
Read MoreWell & Truly Grounded ~ Finding our roots in a time of collapse
Today is the Equinox, the Spring Equinox for those of us in the North, the Fall Equinox for those of you in the Southern Hemisphere. Human beings have long regarded this as one of the four most powerful solar points of the year. The fact that it is happening on a super full moon makes this a time of power, possibility and transition. It seems there are more and more of these liminal moments emerging in our cosmic landscape, as we move more deeply into this collective experience of global...
Read MoreBecoming Fully Human ~ Responding to the Call of the Earth
“We are coming down to earth, we will not arrive intact.” Bayo Akomolafe I meditate on this phrase of Bayo’s a lot. I have found so many echoes of its truth living in my body, in my heart and in my soul. Coming down to earth is not easy. We have been living in our heads, in the air, for a long time. And the price we are paying now, for this disconnection, this dissociation, is very high. We are being called now, from every direction, to re-inhabit the bodies we have left behind: the...
Read MoreOur Primary Satisfactions ~ Authentic Community & The Culture of Deprivation
I heard Francis Weller talk a while ago about ‘our primary satisfactions.’ The mere sound of those words aroused something: a tender feeling, in my body and heart, of how it would be to live inside the flow of those primary satisfactions. These nourishments are a response to our core needs, the fundamental needs we all share as human beings. The need for connection, for intimacy, for touch. The need to be held, the need to trust, and the need for respect, for autonomy, for...
Read MoreFalling into the Wild Radiance of the Heart ~ our nature as never not broken
I have discovered, over the last decade, a great love for goddesses. I’ve been inspired by them, and deeply nourished. They speak in a language that is wild, non-linear and indecipherable by the mind. They seem to be the ones who are involved with the really messy side of life, like Inana, who went down and down into the underworld. As she descended, Inana was stripped of everything she thought she owned, everything she thought she was. That was her journey. From Queen of Heaven to...
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