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Wisdom Within Weeds

The chaos amongst me is but the confusion within me.  The more neglected my yard, the more out of balance my inner ecology seems to be.   I don’t super love a perfectly manicured landscape as I appreciate the wild wisdom that grows outside the lines of control.  Nature is messy, brilliantly adaptive and it is smart and purposeful in its ordering of systems despite the conditioned perception of a colonized mind.  However, every now and again I do thin out the congestion…

Railroads and Rivers

Going home is always bitter seeet. I often wish I never left, yet at 14 years old, I knew there was no other healthy choice and I quickly and happily curated a meaningful existence in glorious AZ. When I’m in Montana, I of course, miss the voice of spirit held in the the Rockies and the autumn turning leaves, but more so I miss a life that got interrupted. Family, friends, and experiences that were unknown because I had to make…

Happy Brain

Moods are most certainly a byproduct of circumstances and individual context but it’s important to remember that we are also an incredibly dynamic and complicated soup of biochemistry.  Our composition is operated by many systems of the body, all of which are governed by chemicals. I find this not only fascinating but also liberating, particularly on those days that nothing is really ‘wrong’ but I am feeling “off”.  Moods aren’t just contingent on the factors of emotional stress or deep…

Dear Winter

Hello Winter.  It is officially your season, though we have been hibernating for many months and seasons in our secure and isolated little dens with our stockpiles of goodies and a select few to keep us company. Your extra-long presence in this epic and historical year has been a practice of quiet endurance, virtuous patience, and awkward, unyielding acceptance.  It has been a time to prioritize, contemplate, and simplify.  A time to be wise in waiting, to study what is,…