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 […]

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is rapture in the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea and music in its roar; I love not man less, But nature more.  –Lord Byron     After enjoying a wonderful Christmas with my family, 2019 kicked off with some […]

“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 […]

“Children’s Song” We live in our own world, A world that is too small For you to stoop and enter Even on hands and knees, The adult subterfuge. And though you probe and pry With analytic eye, And eavesdrop all our talk With an amused look, You cannot find the centre Where we dance, where […]

  “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 […]