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)
Stories
Field Notes: Summer 2023
Summer 2023: First walk after time away; After the flooding; Balsam; Hearing quiet; Misshapen assumptions (read more)
Field Notes: Spring 2023
Spring 2023: Eleven reasons to stop; A compliment; A cup-of-tea discovery; Seeing, hearing, listening; Shall we go this way?; A walk without Asha; Blue dot (read more)
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)
Field Notes: Late Winter 2022/2023
Late Winter 2022/2023: Postcard to the Woods #1; Not in miles or minutes; Birdsongs and heartsongs; Desktop spring (read more)
Field Notes: Winter 2022/2023
Winter 2022/2023: Threshold; Reclaiming prayer; After eight inches of heavy, wet snow; Winter maple (read more)
Field Notes: Fall 2022
Fall 2022: A just-right angle; Not so Common Milkweed; Will they come true?; En route to the forest floor; I can’t just call them all brown; I wonder if their encounter was a poem (read more)
Field Notes: Late Summer 2022
Late Summer 2022: My amended reply; Bird voices; Looking out. Looking in; Palmate instead of red (read more)
Field Notes: Summer 2022
Summer 2022: Elliptic-leaved Shinleaf; For the beauty of this walk; Woodpecker rhythm; The service I want to honor (read more)
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)
