When illness arrives, you change your life. You might quit your job or prioritize family. Maybe you write a book or spend more time in nature. Perhaps you take up yoga or grow your own food. Or you go sky-diving and knock other things off the bucket list. This has been my life. Not the … Continue reading Make Medicine from Suffering
Whew! The past 6 months have been fast and furious (emphasis on furious). I haven't written. Not like my usual slice of life posts that find me on a bike ride or watching the river flow by. The last post I wrote was Magpie Wisdom. The moral of that story was "Don't pick at yourself." … Continue reading Sangha is Sacred… Even if it’s in a Zoom Room.
I sat on my front step this morning, writing out all of my woes, certain that if I got them onto the page, my brain would stop spinning and I could sleep better at night. I listed this experience and that feeling. This loss and that pain. The dream with the bear and the one … Continue reading Snap out of it!
We think our demons have a hold of us. But what if we are holding onto them? What if we're comfortable in our pain or the stories we keep telling, grasping them tightly, even unaware we may be doing so? While practicing Qigong earlier this year with Grandmaster Mantak Chia, I was fascinated by something … Continue reading Free Your Demons, They Have Better Places to Be
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