So many spiritual books read over the years. A doctoral program focused on alternative spirituality.

Joanne posted on Facebook last week a quote by Rumi – “Wherever you are, whatever you do, be in love.” When Rumi spoke of love he wasn’t talking about one person, he spoke of the Divine.  That is my message, “Be in love.”   I could end there, but I won’t.

I’ve been thinking a lot about abuse.  Of course, most of us know about the domination, exploitation and  need for control meted out by patriarchy, but I wonder if we have actually normalized many abuses?  Abuse in the home, in the workplace, in our culture.   Perhaps  we accepted it unconsciously because so many of us are conditioned by religions that tell us to make noble sacrifice and tolerate suffering silently?  I wonder if we’re calling it out when we see it – often and loudly – or if we’ve become conditioned to quietly accept the abuse with little push back?

Chalice Well, Glastonbury I have been deeply involved in the sacred technology and practice of...

It’s the first day of my week-long horseback trip in Provence, the South of France. Beneath my feet (and my horse’s hooves) aromatic and beautiful plants that I know as cultivated, sometimes pot-bound, specimens are growing wild: grey bitter wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), heavy-headed fennel (Foeniculum vulgare), ground-hugging thyme (Thymus vulgaris), spicy lavender (Lavendula dentata), and heart-warming rosemary (Rosmarinus off.). Each step we take releases sharp, heady fragrances.

How can dreams contribute to healing… and to one’s creativity? For fifty years, I’ve written down my dreams and pondered their significance in my daily life. Having collected so much material over five decades, I have learned to discriminate and differentiate the kind of dreams, whether useful, garbage, archetypal, or healing. Subjects come and go, connections arise. I don’t know how such clusters occur.

Shifting images scumble
paint, thin layer on layer, dimly
shading, softening the apparent
opaque surface.