“When we don’t create or express, we get homesick …homesick for ourselves. We’re missing the richness, the beauty inside of us.” -Pam Grout Depression …that grey, heavy, numb, sour, dark, muted, inertia. This is how we feel when...
Sometimes I hear voices in my head. They feel ancient because they say wise things. This usually happens when I’m hiking in nature. They tell me often that to feel is to pray. They say if we’re not feeling, we’re not living. Agony and Ecstasy Is A...
I went for a 10 km hike yesterday along a trail that leads deep into the woods. It was one of those perfectly magical weather days. Not too hot. Not too cool. Puffy white clouds. Striking blue sky. Butterflies fluttering. Dragonflies flitting. Blue herons gliding....
As I write these words, I am watching the sun descend behind the hills for yet another day. Darkness will soon cast its evening blanket of shadows over the valley and trees, and if I’m really lucky, I’ll get to gaze up at an infinite sky sparkling with the...
About eight years ago I wrote an article called, Owning The Beast Within. It came about as an expression of all I had learned about my own dark angel through years of compassionate therapy with a truly gifted woman and healer. She had shown me the places inside myself...
