Along the trail Traveling with Aldo Leopold is a kind of pilgrimage, a focused awareness of what is present, and, once this is developed, feeling a participant with it. Hiking along one the most ancient pilgrimage trails on earth, Camino de Santiago (and only portions of it), I brought only one book, my old (and… Read more »
David and I in conversation at the Brower Center in February 2012 Conversations with David Abram and a Review February 2012 David Abram, deep-ecologist, philosopher, and magician extraordinaire, and author of Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology, and I joined in conversation in a C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco event at the David Brower… Read more »
Hairy Woodpecker Cornell Lab of Ornithology The Saturday afternoon of the Geography of Hope Conference on Aldo Leopold sponsored by Point Reyes Bookstore last weekend, offered field trips. I chose the Mt. Wittenberg hike because it was strenuous and one of my favorite hikes in the world. As it turned out, to use one of… Read more »
Further Reflections on the Pow Wow One cannot hear the drums nor watch the young dancers bedecked in hoof rattles and colorful bird feathers without, upon returning home, listening closer to the whispers across the meadow. Are these the whispers of those who for 10,000 years walked the paths I follow daily, camped along what… Read more »
Filmmaker Beth Nelson and Suscol Council Executive Director Charlie Toledo on Opening Night. Napa Valley Opera House was well populated Tuesday evening, February 19, 2013, for the premier showing of two locally produced films: Awakening Healing Voices of Our Ancestors: A Destiny Reclaimed and The Sky is the Roof. Filmmaker Beth… Read more »
What is it that we do when we “awaken” a sacred site? What, exactly, are we awakening? This is a question whose answer grows within the cells of my body as I live it, a question reawakened after visiting the Serpent Mound in Ohio. While it is true that all land is sacred, some land… Read more »
Sacred Sites: The Great Serpent Mound, Part Three Paths to sacred sites are often circuitous. This was especially true for us the first day we approached The Great Serpent Mound of southern Ohio. Five of us women who had done spiritual work together gathered for most of a week in September 2012, with the stated intention… Read more »
Listening to the Cosmos: Crystallization Period Beginning the 15th of January, we enter what, in Biodynamic Agriculture, is called the Crystallization Period. In this time of fallowness the earth is quiet and most receptive to the energies of the cosmos, a time receptiveness is critically important. For the ground of my psyche, it… Read more »
Winter Solstice Eve: On Suffering Many years ago my dear friend Harold worked by day in the Cambodian refugee camps doing AIDS education. These camps were places of horror. At night the Khmer Rouge would raid the camp of young boys and men, killing or recruiting. Harold had a friend, a Buddhist nun, who also… Read more »
This time of year I remember an experience I had many years ago as a teenager. My sister Judy, our Greek American Fields Service sister Charoula, and I were visiting our Uncle Rufus in Chicago. We lived in central Illinois, so the city was an especially exciting if confounding place for us, and the… Read more »
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