Tag: finding meaning

  • When the root of our suffering is a world starved of purpose & meaning

    When the root of our suffering is a world starved of purpose & meaning

    As I stood in my garden with the dark moon overhead, I felt determined to get the seeds for my root crops in the soil. The loosened and weeded beds had settled and grass sprouts were popping up in the prepared earth as I made my final preparations. It was a full day’s work returning…

  • Finding Your Roots This Holiday Season

    Finding Your Roots This Holiday Season

    Like many, I love this time of year, the holiday season. I love the magic of the twinkling lights and winter tales. I love celebrating and honoring traditions of my own creation, drawn from my family, my ancestors who came before, and my own desires for this season. I love to cook and bake and…

  • Become Fully Alive by Embracing Death

    Become Fully Alive by Embracing Death

    We have moved away from looking at death in our modern society, yet just as it’s important to feel the full range of our emotions, it’s also important to look at the full cycle of life and death in order to be able to fully live – in order to fully be able to experience…

  • Reclaiming What’s Been Lost – Looking to Ancestral Wisdom

    Reclaiming What’s Been Lost – Looking to Ancestral Wisdom

    It’s no wonder so many of us feel lost in the modern world – we’ve lost many of the pieces of what it means to be a human being as we’ve modernized. We can look to the ways of the humans who came before us to infuse more meaning in our lives. If you’re anything…

  • I Am the Rise & I Am the Fall – Navigating Personal, Seasonal Transition

    I Am the Rise & I Am the Fall – Navigating Personal, Seasonal Transition

    Towards this wild, creative life I go Through turbulent seas and dark shadow Up and down, rise and fall The grief of a new journey The grief of obscurity Up and down, rise and fall I am who I have been I am who I am not yet Up and down, rise and fall Brought…

  • Seeking meaning, seeking inspiration

    Seeking meaning, seeking inspiration

    She craved something that was not of this modern world She sought a more meaningful life She looked at the world through curious eyes, eyes of wonder She sought a more inspired life Watch on YouTube For we are the wild ones, the creative ones, the strange ones. The ones who look at our modern-day…