What if the world is both a measurable, finite, material thing that obeys physical laws, and a sacred mythical wonderland peopled with spirits, angels, gods and goddesses? Why not? And how wonderful would it be? Shamans, so it is said, have one foot in each world, ordinary reality and non-ordinary reality (ORspace and NORspace, to […]
A client recently mentioned they’d seen some videos about cymatics and asked, “Is that what’s happening when you do sound healing?” Yes! Exactly that! Our cells are made largely of water, and water forms into beautiful patterns when exposed to certain frequencies. It brings the water “in tune” and sets up this lovely evidence of
The Sun is blowing us kisses again. There are auroras forecast for as far south as Alabama tonight (Friday the 10th). Michael and I are gonna head out to a fave dark sky spot and enjoy ’em. And yes, of course I have written a song about auroras. I have seen three of them in
I spent years creating music out of pain. Real pain. Intense frustration. Deep sadness. And then … my life changed and the reason for all that was (ahem) divorced from my world and suddenly, I had room to be pissed off about other things. Climate change. Social justice. Sexual equality. Bodily autonomy. Much more productive
Creating art can be an act of resistance, which is maybe one of the major reasons to do it. Art can show us new ways of thinking, new ways of understanding an idea. Maybe we’re afraid of something and we read a story in which the object of our fear, a spider or a snake
Well, I’ll be damned. Just when I thought it was all doom and gloom, there are little slivers of hope like fragile shards of broken light penetrating my world. Don’t worry, it’s mostly still doom and gloom, maybe just doo and gloo, though. Michael and I watched a PBS series called A Brief History of
I wasn’t expecting it to hurt. After totality, after the Diamond Ring dazzled us, after the first light began to fade back in … it was just the same, sorry old world it was before, and it felt kind of awful, to be honest. Like … we saw this amazing thing, and everyone cheered and
Silvering light surrounds usas we wait for the momentEach subtle movement softly encroachingLike tentative loversreaching for each otherSun and moon one fleshfor this short whileSuddenly there’s OtherWorldly twilightSuddenly night drops like a stoneThere’s a ring in the sky, signaling silenceBringing the heart-light homeThe towering trees quakingalmost lit from withinas the fading sun beginsto soften for
Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and follow the stars. Or in this case, the Sun, which is a star, too. Michael and I are headed to Arkansas in a few days, where totality will be crossing right through the parents’ backyard. How could we not go? I kind of don’t love traveling,
So turns out, the Neanderthals didn’t die out naturally. Nope. Sapiens happened. I recently read a fascinating book by a French archaeologist Ludovic Slimak, based on his 30+ years of studying Neanderthal remains and sites in the field. Apparently, geneticists recently discovered that some of our DNA is actually Neanderthal, leading to the speculation that
