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Reflections, insights and observations inspired by walking with a dog named Asha

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Tell me about … the night sky

December 1, 2025 Leave a comment

In this season of long nights, I invite you to use this blog post to tell me (and others who are reading this post) about your relationship with the night sky. (share your thoughts and read what others have to say)

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Tell me about … delight

May 17, 2025 Leave a comment

I invite you to enter into a space created for conversation and connection and use this blog post to tell me (and others who are reading this post) about what is delighting you right now. (share your thoughts and read what others have to say)

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A wayfinder’s tale

April 7, 2024 Leave a comment

Map the woman drew after her walk

I made a map that tells a story – about where I’ve walked (and about getting to know wooded paths and trusting how I find my own way). (read more or listen, 7:11 minutes)

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Tagged with Befriending uncertainty, Connecting with the land, Listening to your innerwisdom, Making space for the unknown, Wayfinding

Eulogy

November 26, 2023 Leave a comment

When I failed to act on my desire to hold a ceremony for a beloved tree, I wrote this letter. (read more or listen, 7:56 minutes)

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Tagged with Being with difficult feelings, Connecting with the land

Tenderness of new beginnings

August 1, 2023 Leave a comment

silvery green Downy Shadbush leaves

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)

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Tagged with Listening to your inner wisdom, Making space for the unknown

Walking through doubt

April 5, 2023 Leave a comment

barren landscape that October morning

Two walks, two months, one place: When doubt, grief and anger became a key that unlocked wonder. (read more or listen, 6:07 minutes)

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Tagged with Being with difficult feelings, Connecting with the land, Stepping into enoughness

Lying on a frozen pond

April 29, 2022 Leave a comment

view of the trail from the middle of the 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)

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Tagged with Listening to your inner wisdom, Wayfinding

Mary Oliver at the beaver meadow

December 4, 2021 Leave a comment

“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)

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Tagged with Connecting with the land, Listening to your inner wisdom, Quieting your inner critic, Slowing down, Stepping into enoughness

When ‘heart’ becomes a verb

September 20, 2021 Leave a comment

How journaling the phrase “headed into the woods” turned “heart” into a verb. (And what happened next.) (read more or listen, 6:29 minutes)

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Cocoons and liberation

August 2, 2021 Leave a comment

Northern Casemaker Caddisfly larvae on a wooden bridge

When I found a Northern Casemaker Caddisfly larva, I began to think about my own portable cocoon. (read more or listen, 7:25 minutes)

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