July 2026 Hello Fellow Travelers. June was a month for traveling. One of the anchors for this time was the Grief and Eros ritual (https://www.embodymorelove.com/villageritual), I am still digesting the immensity of this experience. It truly feels like one of those “life before this point and life after this point” moments. Moments of my life from my life, including profound experiences of the last ten years wove through in unexpected ways, moments of connection with the humans, profound...
4 months ago • 2 min read
Hello Fellow Travelers. Last month took me to the Primal Arts Festival in northern Maryland for the first time. I must say, there is something truly special that happens when you get large groups of people together for ritual, drumming, and fire in the woods for a few nights. The weather mostly cooperated with us, thankfully it wasn’t as cold or wet as originally forecasted. I have been to other events in the area later in the summer, so adjusting to needing more warm clothes took a bit of...
5 months ago • 2 min read
Hello Fellow Travelers. April brought showers to my world, literally. Lines of powerful storms stretched from Texas all the way north to my home in Michigan. Early in the month every river in Michigan hit flood stage from all the rain. A small but significant flood happened in our home’s basement as the ground water welled up and tending to that clean up has occupied many of the resources in our household since. Now we are hitting the growing time here, the red elder trees in the low lying...
6 months ago • 2 min read
Hello all, Spring is tantalizingly close here in Michigan. The weather has turned, turned back, done a few cartwheels, and thrown a few curve-balls over the last two months. Here, as March is closing out, the snowdrops are almost spent, the wood violets are just getting going. The air is full of calling geese, sandhill cranes, and arguing cardinals. I have heard the spring peeper frogs a few times, between freezes and thunderstorms. As I am writing, the wren in the bush next to my window is...
7 months ago • 5 min read
Hello all, I am landing at home after my adventures teaching with Kenn in Utah, followed by time in Portland, Oregon connecting with heart-family. The Gather, Glean, and Grow workshop feels like a huge success. We were not entirely sure what the weekend would bring, since there were so many new moving parts (teaching together, new material, new venue) and it came together in ways that we couldn’t have predicted. Turns out that we didn’t need to be worried about filling 2 ½ days, all of our...
8 months ago • 3 min read
Welcome to 2026. Congratulations on making it this far. I hope this year brings you all that you need, most of what you want, and some unexpected, welcome delights. January, for me, is a time of contemplation. Starting with the Solstice, where the sun appears to pauses in the sky and the nights are long, I start to catch up with myself. It is a time of orientation, and pausing to collect thoughts. There is time for reflection, thinking about what came before and where I am heading (and if I...
10 months ago • 3 min read
October and November have been the kind of months that have a distinct before and after quality, I am very much not the same person that went into October 2025. On Gratitude,Grief, Glitter, and Death: My heart has been broken open, and something beautiful (and rather glittery) has been leaking from it. The energy of death and heavy transition has been pressing in since August, moving in waves through communities I move in. One of my partners unexpectedly lost her beloved Uncle in late...
11 months ago • 2 min read
Thank you to the subscriber who send me a heads up about the incorrect date and link for the November online workshops! Hello Autumn, I am truly feeling the turning of the year into deeper autumn. The leaves are going thoroughly red and gold right now, though the drought we are in has some trees dropping leaves faster than normal. A few weeks ago I had the privilege of spending a few days at a friend’s cottage on Lake Huron, where the sound of waves followed me throughout my day. Thick foggy...
about 1 year ago • 3 min read
Hello all! As I write this, the feel of summer’s ending is in the air. We are still very much in the summer harvest season, and night time temperatures are starting to dip down to near frost levels. Apple and pear season is in full swing here in Michigan. The colors are starting to shift already in some places, splashes of red and gold among the green. Fierce winds, especially around late afternoon and into evening here in the middle of the state, when the gales are hitting the Great Lakes,...
about 1 year ago • 2 min read