Community Healing
-
Honoring our Ancestors
It is that time of year of holidays that focus upon the honoring of ancestors of various types. As I write, it will be Halloween (or Samhain or Day of the Dead) in a few days. And beneath the plastic masks and store-bought candies and blown-up decorations of skeletons and such, this time is spiritually Continue reading
-
Ashuelot
About a week or two ago, I took a walk along the Ashuelot River, along the Jonathan Daniels Trail. This is something I often do – several times a week, weather permitting. Such that I have slowly come to know her twists and turns; her moods and ways. This day there was something odd about Continue reading
-
Songs, Poetry and Healing
It’s summertime, and the livin’s easy. The fish are jumpin’ and the cotton is high. This Gershwin tune was one of my mother’s favorites to belt out in her theatrical way. Sometimes, after she finished, she would say (with a bit of melodrama) that in her next life, she hoped to be a singer. For Continue reading
-
Not Knowing
I have struggled mightily to know what to write this month for my healing column, with the whole gigantic spectacle of who-knows-what-is-happening going on around us, so relentlessly. I don’t want to avoid the elephant in the room, as they say, since – of course – our own health in affected in many ways by Continue reading
-
A Visit to the Peace Tree
It was a warm, for February in Keene. And it also happened to be the first day of the Year of the Snake, by solar calculations. So I decided to get out of the house and take a good, long walk. There were so many things running through my mind right then, about what was Continue reading
-
Shadow and Changes
As we look ahead to a new year rising, we can be sure that it will bring change at many levels. By this, I mean nationally. For the United States, writ large. Because, of course, our individual health in never really just individual. It is also impacted by the state of our society and our Continue reading
-
Our Dragons
We are just over half way through the Chinese Year of the Wood Dragon. How are you doing? Of the twelve animals of the Chinese Zodiac, the dragon is the only one that is not quite real. At least in the sense of being born, and eventually dying, in a physical body. Perhaps for this Continue reading
-
A Card Reading
I was up in Berlin, Vermont visiting my friend Suzanne the other evening when she suggested we do a card reading. She had invited two other friends over – Kathleen and Ellie. Kathleen had brought along a tarot deck. We gathered around a large circular table, and Kathleen placed her deck in the center of Continue reading
-
Those We Have Lost
Loss is a natural part of life, of all life. It is the other side, the necessary complement of birth and creation. But sometimes loss, certain kinds of loss, can feel raw and chaffing, unresolved and aching, painful and disconcerting. We may try to put a band aid upon this wound, hoping to cover it, Continue reading
-
Violets, Weeding and Fear
This year, violets have overtaken my garden. From just a few in one area of my garden last year I now find these seemingly dainty plants with their heart shaped leaves throughout my garden. I have learned that they spread by rhizomes, or underground roots. I started gardening only a few years ago and still Continue reading
SKYE stephenson 