Broken Pieces
People, of various traditions, believe that love will heal the world. What would that kind of love look like? And...
Posts about Suffering
Shift in Perspective
Is there is anything in your life causing you to feel mired up? What if you could rise with Hawk...
Magpie
Black/white, good/bad, right/wrong… Magpie shows us how to move beyond either/or, to consider both/and. Ah, that moment when someone sees...
Peace
Peering out the window, I watched Dove swoop down through the air and land on Mother Earth. Dove’s presence alone,...
Bat
Realizing the dream of a better world lies in both our self-care and rebirth. Through death’s initiation, Bat inducts those...
Ant
In Spirit Clans, David Carson tells a story about Ant. A native woman, who lost everything, met an apparition dressed in...
Healing Medicine
Tares grow beside wheat, transfiguring us. Cancer invades healthy tissue, breaking down normal cells. Figuratively speaking, communities experience both tares,...
Soul Parts
Once saved, always saved, was a common theme of my childhood faith tradition. There is another kind of lost-ness, here...
Puffed Up Plumage
Puffed up plumage, thirty pieces of silver or the road of sorrow. Where were all the grownups? I could not breathe....
Rooster’s Crow
Healing, nor transformation, ends with our own. Rooster’s crow was more than a morning alarm. It was a wakeup call...
Sacred Womb
Continued healing: I see ravens every day, gigantic ones. On that particular day, it was dramatically different. Eventually they would...
Waiting Was
Continued healing: “You’re not dealing with this!” It seemed, to her, that I was doing nothing to correct my situation....