Bat
Realizing the dream of a better world lies in both our self-care and rebirth. Through death’s initiation, Bat inducts those...
Posts about Living Creatures
Spider
She walked out on stage, lip synced, I don’t like Spiders and Snakes, and brought the house down. For weeks,...
Butterfly
I looked at the flower paintings, and gasped. Observing more closely I could not find one butterfly flirting with the...
Nature
I can still pull up a twinge of the anger I felt on that summer day, back in the 60’s....
Favorite Songs
What are some of your favorite songs? A babbling brook, wind rustling through tree leaves. Yes, but your favorite songs...
Keeping Confidences
Shhh! Wait and see which way the cat jumps. In positions such as Spiritual Director, Psychotherapist or Clergy, keeping confidences,...
Bison
The ranger warned us about getting too close. In spite of our intention to heed his words, we rounded a...
Soul Parts
Once saved, always saved, was a common theme of my childhood faith tradition. There is another kind of lost-ness, here...
Skinny Buffalo
Skinny Buffalo or Bison’s abundance, it was my choice. She was fixated on convincing me to wear the wintery house shoes...
Rooster’s Crow
Healing, nor transformation, ends with our own. Rooster’s crow was more than a morning alarm. It was a wakeup call...
Sacred Womb
Continued healing: I see ravens every day, gigantic ones. On that particular day, it was dramatically different. Eventually they would...
Mirrored
I had completely caved to clichés. Was it a last-ditch effort, or did I, too, have an axe to grind? We mirrored each...