On Letting it All Crumble Down…

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2017 When I was twenty-two, I lived just a few miles from this beautiful archway, a gem in the middle of the deep blue Mediterranean.  It was like a dream rising out of the sea…a gateway to another world.  It was enormous, defied description,...

Broken Hearts and Burning Stars

Friday, March 31st, 2017 I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do. ~ Georgia O’Keeffe I’ve been out picking nettles in the cold spring woods. I...

Like a Falling Star…

Tuesday, August 9th, 2016 From down here, at the bottom of a magical well, I can still see the stars.  From down here, where I have almost become earth, where my elements are almost indistinguishable now from the breathing soil, I am so surrendered to the wet and the...

Opening Every Pandora’s Box

Thursday, June 9th, 2016 This wasn’t my first time.  I had done this before…many times in fact.  I had stood, humbled at the feet of my boxes, digging deep for the courage to face them.  I had even opened them, sometimes balking at their sheer heft.  I had...

Feral

Tuesday, February 9th, 2016 feral: adjective 1. existing in a natural state, as animals or plants; not domesticated or cultivated; wild. 2. having reverted to the wild state, as from domestication. 3. of or characteristic of wild animals. I have gotten comfortable...

In my Blood

Friday, September 25th, 2015 I love the warm ocean. I go there whenever I can, slip my body into the water, and ride the waves.  I am fearless with them.  I can intuit when I can catch them and when I need to dive beneath them.  I am not fearless because I am merely...

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