It’s My Birthday. Here’s What I Want.

Rachel, a middle aged woman of medium build, wearing yellow tshirt and holding a rectangle large sign that says YOU ARE LOVED in block letters

It’s My Birthday. Here’s What I Want! I want choruses of freedom songs to birth the emerging revolution. I want the stardust from millions of dying planets to wake up […]

Landscape as Witness

Pink, gold and yellow leaves on a maple tree in autumn

Landscape as Witness Living in the valley surrounded by the rolling hills of the Northern Appalachian mountains, intersected by two rivers, the Conemaugh and Stonycreek, to me, feels connected to […]

What Does Your Heart Need Right Now?

Yellow leaves with a blue sky behind the leaves

What Does Your Heart Need Right Now? Tuning into my heart barely two weeks away from the election in the USA, my busy mind buzzes. Doom scrolling about Trump tangles […]

Physical & Emotional Pain. Living the Practice.

Physical & Emotional Pain. Living the Practice. While I don’t identify with the good vibes only wellness industrial complex, my life’s work involves working in spaces offering tools for wellness- […]

Blessed are Those Who Walk in Peace.

Children of various ethnicities pushing a large bin of weapons off a cliff.

What does it mean to be a person who embodies peace? What does it mean to be a peacemaker? These are guiding questions for me living in a culture of […]

Unpacking These Times

A Picture of a hand drawn spiral with the different points on the spiral of The Work That Reconnects by Joanna Macy.

In these times, I feel gratitude for: The earnest song of the first bird before dawn. The magic that music holds The possibilities that words create Curiosity that takes the […]