SEEDBED OF THE YEAR (in the dead of winter) I was delighted to find such rich words synonymous with "beginning" from the Merriam-Webster...

The season of the sun is slip-sliding, untying and transitioning into autumn, preparing the way for the dreamtime of winter. Are you...

Greetings to you on this late winter day. Here in the north and middle this is the time of subtle, yet noticeable change - light -...

WINTER WITCH So begins the time of the Winter Witch - the Cailleach. Here in the north she has come! December is a dance between worlds;...

Birthed now an orphan by the singing tongues of mercurial Sea Held by the long arms of memory Weaned on grief Me all salt tears and mist...

There's a story, a story, a story told in the north, south, west & east on a far away island that once upon a time and once upon this...

Shell River in N. Minnesota This past spring many, so many seeds were planted, tucked into the loamy black earth of these COVID times....

An open window beckons on this northern midwestern Summer Solstice day. The longest day of the year and the zenith of the sun's light in...

The word beginning is a descendent of the Old English word onginnan (ca.450-1100) meaning to undertake, to attempt. One of the many...

The translucent slant ways light of November has ebbed and what is left is an ever thickening blanket of cloud cover. It feels the all...

A few years ago a massive wildfire - The 2016 Fort McMurry wildfire claimed 1,456,810 acres of Alberta and Saskatchewan in Canada. It...

From the Edge of an Inland Sea In the Tipping place between Harvest and Sweet Release Listening from the eyes of the ears to the...

Dear Friends, I hope you are all keeping well here in the middle of summer, in the middle of a pandemic and in these unsettling and...

Here we are - spring! The natural is world waking up ( in the northern realm) and yet, so much is dissolving, shifting and unknown as...