It can be easy to associate peace with the absence of something like conflict, noise, or chaos, or being at a passive place of remove from world events or everyday demands. The practice of peace, though, is an active choice, and can be intentionally woven into the flow of your days, a part of how your …
In this mid-winter moment, I’m reflecting on the ancient feast of Imbulc. Meaning ‘in the belly’, it is a celebration of the pregnant moment of promise, the coming of new life and the return to the light. It is the the turning of the season toward spring, as yet unmanifest and unborn. In the natural …
It has been quite a year! In my life, that hasn’t taken the shape of a lot of exterior changes, but an onslaught of internal shifts ushered in by health challenges – lessons like patience, perseverance and humility have been my focus of ‘ wisdom study’. The kind of shifts that tend to presage exterior …
This weekend is a confluence of Holy Holidays, the time of renewal and rising. The word Easter comes from the German ‘Eostre’, the ancient goddess of spring, fertility and beginnings, the freshness and possibility of the new season. Nature tells this story every year, blossoming in all her verdant glory. In this season of resurrection, …