The Blog

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
In fear of what my life and my children’s lives might be…

The most sacred place dwells within our heart, where dreams are born and secrets sleep. A mystical refuge of darkness and light, fear and conquest, adventure and discovery, challenge and transformation. Our heart speaks for our soul every moment while we are alive. Listen. . . as the whispering beat repeats: Be-gin, Be-gin, Be-gin. . […]

Calling My NameI walk with Earth under my feetI walk with visions in my eyesI walk with fire inside meI walk with Spirits as my guidesWhen I feel like I can’t breatheI take a walk and I am healedI’m walking back to the centerI’m walking through the sacred fieldI’m walking deeper and deeperLearning the secrets […]

If you do not walk with the animals, you will not know them –  And what you do not know, you will fear – And what you fear, you will destroy. –Chief Dan George, Tsleil Waututh Nation   Last weekend I attended the annual fundraiser and training event at The Nokota Preserve, Chester Springs. Frank […]

What is Life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of the buffalo in the winter. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass, and loses itself in the sunset.  — Chief Crowfoot, Siksika First Nation     As I sit here looking out at the […]

“You can love her with everything you have and she still won’t belong to you. She will run wild with you, beside you with every step, but let me tell you something about women who run with wolves. . . their fierce hearts don’t settle between walls and their instinct is stronger than upbringing.  Love […]

“I do believe in an everyday sort of magic – the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like. The eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity;  the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we are alone.” –Charles de Lint       I can spend hours sitting […]

  There is no place you can go to hide from the thoughts you keep contemplating  over and over inside your mind. There is no place you can venture where your true emotions will be concealed and the secrets of your heart will not show. There is no place in this whole wide world you […]

  “Although I deeply love oceans, deserts and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of painful magnetic pull to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty.”   –Victoria Erickson   The words of Victoria Erickson beautifully express how it feels when I stand and gaze at the incredible […]

One day at a time – this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful it will be worth remembering. Happiness is a journey, just […]