Tag: seasonal living

  • From the darkness, inspiration returns

    From the darkness, inspiration returns

    Summer is retreating, and with the dissipating light, I find inspiration is returning. There are the people for which joy comes more naturally. Perhaps these are the same types who look forward to a warm summer day and the promise of a day swarming with aliveness that leaves them glistening when the sun meets the…

  • 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…

  • Let your goals wilt away so you can follow the path that makes you come alive

    Let your goals wilt away so you can follow the path that makes you come alive

    Our weather has been the typical cool spring we’re used to in the mountain west. Our winter was challenging, as it usually is in Wyoming, but we accumulated more snow than usual this year. We went from one extreme to the other as it quickly turned warm and melted away. Last spring, we had a…

  • 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…

  • 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…