Listening to the whispered wisdom from leaves of an unfamiliar shrub encourage me to meet myself with tenderness as I explore the next iteration of my work. (read more or listen, 6:36 minutes)
Walking through doubt
Two walks, two months, one place: When doubt, grief and anger became a key that unlocked wonder. (read more or listen, 6:07 minutes)
Lying on a frozen pond
Lying on a frozen pond, trusting the ice will hold me, feels akin to the decision-making that took me away from the solid ground of the familiar. (read more or listen, 7:13 minutes)
Mary Oliver at the beaver meadow
“Norma,” my inner critic, visited while I lingered at the beaver meadow. Mary Oliver’s poetry helped me reclaim my enoughness. (read more or listen, 6:05 minutes)
When ‘heart’ becomes a verb
How journaling the phrase “headed into the woods” turned “heart” into a verb. (And what happened next.) (read more or listen, 6:29 minutes)
Cocoons and liberation
When I found a Northern Casemaker Caddisfly larva, I began to think about my own portable cocoon. (read more or listen, 7:25 minutes)
Geese and indigo: Thoughts on wonder
Walking by the beaver pond with Asha, expecting to see Canada Geese but finding the pond empty of birds, prompted me to consider wonder, both noun and verb. (read more or listen, 5:35 minutes)
While looking for birch seeds
What I found while crunching through the snow searching for birch seeds. (read more or listen, 6:05 minutes)
Respecting No
How Asha’s instinctive No led me to begin to acknowledge and respect my own body’s No’s — without layers of Supposed to or Should. (read more or listen, 5:34 minutes)
Stepping into the fog
When I start to get lost in uncertainty, I turn to this comforting lesson from a foggy morning walk.
(read more or listen, 4:23 minutes)
