Tag: rewilding

  • Learning to let go when our creative harvests fail to fruit

    Learning to let go when our creative harvests fail to fruit

    I’m in my element, as the transition from the heat of summer to the warmth of autumn becomes visible. The first fire burning in the hearth penetrates deep into my bones rather than a scorching heat that brushes the surface. The softening of summer’s lively green into fall’s vibrant reds and oranges will soon become…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • The Sweet Exhale of Summer’s End – Going Within & Tending the Muse

    The Sweet Exhale of Summer’s End – Going Within & Tending the Muse

    There’s a curious idea our minds seem to hold – that one day, we’re going to land on perfection, on having it all figured out. We look at other artists, creators, and makers, and from the outside, it feels like they know what they’re doing. Yet inside, they too battle feelings of uncertainty, of not…

  • 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…