Latest Posts
Dawn Songs – To Call Together
I am grateful to have my writing in Dawn Songs: A Birdwatcher’s Field Guide to the Poetics of Migration, a beautiful anthology edited by Jamie K. Reaser and J. Drew Lanham. You’ll find two of my new poems: “The Solace of Swallows” and…
Festival of Lights: Chanukah – Winter Solstice – Christmas – Kwanzaa 2022
The Great Medicinal Wheel turns to the North, the season of the festival of lights
the turn of the season a liminal time
of astrological alignment, reflection, and commitment
May we feel the energy of the North
and gratitude for the deep rest of…
Samhain – Halloween – All Saint’s – All Soul’s Day
Samhain – Halloween – All Saint’s – All Soul’s Day 2022
Samhain to All Soul’s Day, the turning of the wheel of the year between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice. This is a time when the veils between the worlds are thin. Great Horned…
Lammas August 1, 2022
Lammas August 1, 2022
Mid-point between Summer Solstice and Autumn Equinox birds write in italic calligraphy tracks on the sand bells, incantations, whistles, imagine the I Ching, book of changes, runes, hieroglyphics, gallery-style psychic readings, . . …
Summertime Wayfaring
Summertime Wayfaring
Around 4 o’clockish each morning, the birds begin to sing before first light… beginning with song sparrows, swallows, and robins. I wake grateful for the beautiful symphony of the season. In my journal, I invite the words, wayfaring into the light of each…
Taurus New Moon Solar Eclipse to Beltane
May 1st, Beltane, a cross-quarter turning in the wheel of the year. On a short hike on this season between Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice, note the Camas Lilies, Wapato, are blooming blue lavender along waterways along with Bluebells, Buttercups, Trillium, wildflowers of…