spirituality
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Making Peace with my Namesake
I have been feeling a call to return to Scotland for a few years. This is because of some unfinished business I know I had with this land. Business that is ancestral, in part. And also having to do with my relationship with the place I was named for – the Isle of Skye. A Continue reading
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The Rich Diversity of You and Us
You are unique – there has been nobody like you ever before and there will be no one quite like you ever again. So take a minute (or a few) to rejoice in you. Love yourself completely just as you are with all your (apparent) imperfections and maladies and quirks. This is part of your Continue reading
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TRIPLE NEW TIMES
I know our official New Year already happened on January first, but there are several other kinds of New Years’ or, better put it, New Times of varying types and magnitudes that will soon be impacting us individually, collectively and cosmically. I am thinking of three in particular that are at hand, or soon to Continue reading
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THESE TIMES
Fourteen years ago, in mid-December, I met the man who I am now married to at a Shopper Christmas party. One week later, my mother passed away peacefully on the night of the winter solstice. I nestled close to her now cool body until the ambulance arrived. This year, there will be no Shopper party Continue reading
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PATIENCE
When my daughter was in nursery school, her favorite song starred a snail and had the following refrain: “Be patient, be patient, don’t be in such a hurry/when you get impatient, you only start to worry.” These words have popped back into my mind in the last few weeks, as we have been dealing with Continue reading
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Allowing ourselves to mourn
Loss is an inevitable aspect of being a human, and the older we advance in age, the more losses we have sustained personally and observed in the world. While we would all prefer to live in a fairy tale land where loss doesn’t happen, we can’t. In fact, learning how to navigate through loss is Continue reading
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OFFERINGS
For as long as I can recall, I have been fascinated by the concept of offering and offerings. One of my first writing pieces from third or fourth grade was titled “Death Wish”. It was about an indigenous man singled out to be the blood offering for a ceremony who is rescued at the last Continue reading
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Entering the Dark Sun Time
Last year, I attended a workshop with Mexican healer Sergio Magaña at the Open Center in New York City. A portion of this two-day workshop focused on the Mayan/Aztec calendar. Like some of you, I followed the hype around 2012 with its myriad books and scary movies about how this was going to be the Continue reading
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Our Underworlds and Mexico
Mexico, what do you think of when you hear this word? Perhaps it is tacos and tequila that comes to your mind, or maybe an enjoyable vacation you took there by the beach. Or it could be that you think of drugs and danger, poverty and violence. Maybe images of some Hollywood movie comes to Continue reading
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