Finding your Sense of Place: Snakes on Amazon!

Find your sense of place again by reading Snakes! Leaping Goat Press has just released a second edition of my first novel Snakes, originally published in 2011 by il piccolo editions, Fisher King Press. It has a new cover described in an earlier post. As I have re-edited the book, I realize how much the writing of the story has formed my writing sense of self…. Read more »

Distillation and Death

Distillation and Death Our goat Estrella passed at the end of bloom when the young grapes were bebe-sized, just before the Mariposa tulips popped into appearance. I told the vet that Estrella had to have help arriving, born by Cesarean, and that now she had to have help leaving. She was in too much distress;… Read more »

Healing and Archetypes

Marqués de Riscal Hotel Healing and Archetypes This last Sunday the Curriculum Committee of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco offered an intramural event for members and candidates on Contemporary Issues in Archetypal Theory in which several members and board members presented different perspectives. The concept of “archetype” is an ancient one with… Read more »

Reflections on Resurrection

Easter reflection As a child of a Protestant farm family, I celebrated Easter as one of the important liturgical days of the religious year. School was out on Good Friday, when we attended interdenominational services. The world darkened as the events of the crucifixion were retold. This was followed by an early morning pilgrimage to… Read more »

Tucson: Goethe and the Art of Seeing

Tucson: Goethe and the Art of Seeing   After the Tucson lecture and workshop, April 4-5, 2014, Friends of Jung, Tucson, Arizona , The Environmental Crisis: Birth of a New Consciousness? Goethe:”sublimely towering, wide-spreading tree of God” Strasbourg Cathedral, from Wikipedia   I am home after a weekend with a great group of people in Tucson…. Read more »

Tucson: April 4-5: The Environmental Crisis: Birth of a New Consciousness?

  Tucson: April 4-5: The Environmental Crisis: Birth of a New Consciousness? On Friday evening, April 4,and Saturday, April 5, 2014, I will be presenting a lecture and workshop  to Southern Arizona Friends of Jung in Tucson, Arizona. The title of the weekend will be The Environmental Crisis: Birth of a New Consiousness. If you… Read more »

Drought: What We Need to Change

Sigh of Relief!   Drought: What We Need to Change The courtyard pavement glistened in the early dawn this morning. I felt myself sigh with relief. The promised rain was beginning. It has steadily picked up. The weather predicts heavy rain today and tonight, even 6 inches before the current series of storms have passed… Read more »