may we be reached
bell hooks went out in quite a moment. a tragic repeat, or an opening, a dispersion of earthseed? may we listen...
The Mind. The Myths. The Method. Mantra.
The festival Diwali is marked by this month’s new moon, which falls today, Nov 4th at 2:15pm Pacific. Most consider Diwali to commemorate...
Our collective mother: Instinct
It is Mother's Day, and I am having coffee in a squat red cup, and dark chocolate with sea salt, and that will be my breakfast. We had a...
The Fertile Ground of the 4 'mind-changings'
The preliminaries, or the 4 mind-changings, as they are sometimes called, are simple, profound teachings, and of course they are also...
The Golden Thread of the Broken and Un-Broken Things
In DharmaBridge this week we created a drawing/map/timeline/project that we can refer to as a "Golden Thread" Project. If you're reading...
Addressing the Roots of Racism
While current events have at times felt uplifting, they can also be extremely re-traumatizing for the black community, and therefore, for...
Before the pasta runs out and we're dead...
We had a couple handfuls of Orzo pasta left before we were completely out of food. I was lost in the deep recesses of Tarahumara country,...
Pulling big levers in the machinery of change
When I was a new therapist, I had a client that I only got to work with for a couple of months. She was young - maybe early thirties. It...
Everything on the Table: 5 Poems
Right after Mary Oliver died, I spent time poring over her words, as you may have, as well. And something about that poignancy of reading...
The Mask is Never Not On
You may know that Halloween evolved from the fall pagan festival of blessing the harvest, Samhain, and the opportunity to honor what we...
