Raccoon
Come out, Raccoon. Were you the one who stole our creative flow? Or, perhaps in our quick judgment, we failed...
Posts about Living Creatures
Roadrunner
Roadrunner scurried across our adobe wall to get a closer look at me. As I leaned in toward her, she...
Sage
A parliament of owls and a fiery Appaloosa: I didn’t know whether to name what was before me and assign...
Shaman
Shaman: Chant a song and shake a rattle. Let the drumbeat take you into non-ordinary reality. *While the Western world...
Bat
Realizing the dream of a better world lies in both our self-care and rebirth. Through death’s initiation, Bat inducts those...
Spider
She walked out on stage, lip synced, I don’t like Spiders and Snakes, and brought the house down. For weeks,...
Butterfly
I looked at the flower paintings, and gasped. Observing more closely I could not find one butterfly flirting with the...
Nature
I can still pull up a twinge of the anger I felt on that summer day, back in the 60’s....
Favorite Songs
What are some of your favorite songs? A babbling brook, wind rustling through tree leaves. Yes, but your favorite songs...
Keeping Confidences
Shhh! Wait and see which way the cat jumps. In positions such as Spiritual Director, Psychotherapist or Clergy, keeping confidences,...
Bison
The ranger warned us about getting too close. In spite of our intention to heed his words, we rounded a...
Soul Parts
Once saved, always saved, was a common theme of my childhood faith tradition. There is another kind of lost-ness, here...