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Feliz Día Mundial de las Aves Migratorias! “we remember to lift our wings of hope   To watch and listen,  advocate and lobby for future generations   Trust that whatever is falling away Is opening portals for what is now possible."             -Gwendolyn Morgan…

The beauty of this season and this festival of Beltane, mid-point between the vernal equinox and the summer solstice, brings warmth, flowers and growth, a flurry of activities in the northern hemisphere.   In early April to mid-April we had intermittent snow, with temperatures in the…

Snowy Owls & Unexpected Graces (Homebound Publications) and the anthology Dawn Songs:  A Birdwatcher’s Field Guide to Poetic Migration (which includes 3 of my poems) are noted in an on-line article in Spirituality & Health this month:    https://www.spiritualityhealth.com/nature-poetry-as-spiritual-practice Many thanks to Rev. Sarah Bowen, Compassion Consortium Connor…

  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…

 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 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 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 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…

  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…