Betty White’s death last week was an impossible-seeming event. Most of us had never lived in a world where there wasn’t a Betty White. She was born in the ’20s and started working in television pretty much the minute it was invented, so she was, literally, a regular guest in our homes for decades. And […]
I’m a wildly spiritual seeker who eschews all organized religions. I tried on a few of the mainstream Christian religions when I was younger, and found them all problematic in their own ways. If a sect was logical, rational, sensible, based in reality, focused on kindness and being charitable and living in the most Christ-like
I’ve been thinking about mythology and folk music and how intertwined they really are. Define folk music, you say. Yes, that’s reasonable. My definition of folk music is anything that actually about someone’s life: love, work, dreams, kids, home, family, connectedness to others, to nature, to whatever passes for God, loss, pain, fear, pride, trauma,
Alchemy is much misunderstood, usually over-simplified, and frequently used badly out of context – all to the fierce detriment of an amazing tradition. Very rarely these days does anyone actually study the true art, because wowzers, those people tend to blow up a lot of stuff and reek of rotten eggs all the time. I
Step into the Garden, friend, see how lush and brilliant it is! But hush, and breathe, and be still – you don’t want to scare them. Now, don’t look at me like that. You must believe just a little bit, otherwise, why did you pay twenty bucks to get in? The Gnostic Knowms are simply
The search is over. We know where it is. Women have always known. Oh, we play plenty dumb, and try to be helpful with questions like, “Where did you last see it?” and “Can you remember if you had it when you were fighting the Black Knight?” But we totally know. And we’re not telling.
Spell for a Happy Yard Make sure there are lilacs, and a rosebush or two. Leave a few of the Inevitable Maples to grow. Leave the violets. Plant some cedars around the edge instead of building a fence. Have a few raised garden beds and grow things you lovelovelove to eat. Don’t mow it very
Life Goal: To live as magical a life as is humanly possible. Oh, I talk about other goals, smaller, more manageable things like growing SoundWorks into a community of healers and artists working together in a multitude of vibrational modalities . . . which is not small, but it’s not as big as live as magical
Once again, I reach the far end of a week where I know there’s a blog post that needs to be written for Tuesday and . . . crickets. So I surf through past posts to see if I can dig up any inspiration, looking at what I was thinking about in March 2020, 2019,
Friends, let me say it again: We Create Our Own Reality. I made those words really big so you can’t miss them. Yes, we do, and the reality that is “out there” responds to what we think and believe “in here.” I remember 2016, seeing millions of Pepe the Frog memes, thinking, there’s something harsh
