One of my favorite parts of my spiritual practice is the creating of shrines and altars. It marries my inner Martha Stewart with my Priestess self in creative, soul-nurturing ways. When I was younger, the idea of having a home altar in our Episcopalian house would have been shocking and faintly sacrilegious. But non-Protestants the … Read more
This Turning, as I experience it, is like what poet Robinson Jeffers called “falling in love outward.” Our mission is not to escape from our world, or tune it out, or fix things by remote control, but to fall in love with our world. ~ Joanna Macy It is supposedly Black Friday, and we … Read more
Today, I give thanks for YOU! To each and every one of you that comes to visit my blog, from the occasional drop-ins to the daily faithful, I want you to know how grateful I am that you have found my little place in cyberspace. In the crazy overload of people and information vying for … Read more
What you love, loves you. What you want, wants you. The soul of your business is invested in you and in the success of your business. It has its own reasons for being, its own allies, its own ecology which shapes its unfolding story. ~ Hiro Boga As many of you who have studied … Read more
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. ~ Jean Cocteau I am late posting, because we had a visit to the vet today with our sweetie Sierra. It looks like we are going to begin treating her for lymphoma. That’s the bad news. But the … Read more
Travelers, there is no path; paths are made by walking. ~ Antonio Machado I am grateful today that, after many years of hovering on the edges, dodging, denying, hemming, hawing, and arguing over semantics, I am at peace with knowing I am psychic. I have been conflicted for years about it because that word is so … Read more
A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life. ~ Isadora James Today I give thanks to all the Divine Ones for my sister, Carrie. She was born on this day in 1961, while we were stationed on Okinawa in the Ryukyu Islands … Read more
Coffee, the finest organic suspension ever devised. ~ Star Trek, Voyager Today, I give thanks for a simple pleasure that I love. It is a bit of an indulgence, but I love my Cafe du Monde chicory coffee from New Orleans. The Cafe du Monde coffee stand has been serving coffee and beignets in New Orleans … Read more
Today, for Day 15 of my month-long gratitude practice, I give thanks for Triangle Tarot and Friends (the Raleigh-Durham Tarot Meetup). When I whine to my friends about being too busy, or stretched thin, invariably, someone suggests that I give up being the organizer of the Meetup. I know that someday I will have to. But even … Read more