I am a firm believer in the need to express our selves through various creative modalities. Our creative capacity is something that flows from the soul, and gets blocked from the critical mind. Too often we don’t create because we are led to believe that a masterpiece should be made. Our inner self-critic over-rides the playful innocence that wants to color outside the lines and create things that are abstract and imperfect. We attach to the end…
For the majority of human history people have lived in harmony and reverence for the earth. However, upon development of agriculture and the ages of colonization and industrialization a severance between people and planet arose from man’s intention of domination, control and power. What was once wild and free became contained, organized and distributed in the name of globalization and progress. This progress has resulted in disease and detriment to the planet as well as those of us inhabiting it. …
The month of October has passed and with it the celebration of my 33 birthday. Every year on my birthday, I reflect on the year past and set intention for the year to come. As I look back on the last 12 months I see both great progress and great struggle. Obstacles presented themselves as teachers, inspiration as opportunity and evolution and challenging transition as an apparent part of this spiritual path. It was a year I faced some of…
As the green summer leaves fade like a watercolor into golden ambers and mustards, the old China Berry tree facing the west of my yard begins to shed again. This is the Earth’s way of telling me October has arrived bearing a season of transition. With it comes the early set of a resting sun, and a cool night breeze playing its mysterious tune within the hollow of my wooden chimes. As I sit, and watch, and listen, I attune…
