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Praise in Disheartening Days

On April 28, 2020 / Nature, Spirituality / 34 Comments

196 During this quarantine without life’s usual distractions, anxiety follows me like my puppy. I’m safe, but the Earth trembles. I smother one flaming fear by reminding myself I’m OK. Then another flares. When my husband was

The Greek God Pan, Pandemic, & Nature’s Healing Balm

On April 14, 2020 / Health, Nature / 21 Comments

206 My email feed and Facebook page burn with coronavirus news and magic ways to avoid the covid-19 pandemic. I remind myself to breathe. Our house is on fire. And still, the moon makes her nightly rounds

We’ll Find a New Way of Living, We’ll Find a Way of Forgiving

On March 31, 2020 / My Land and Home, Spirituality / 32 Comments

237 I dropped into a Deep Well of Grief this morning. I grieved for dreams shattered, especially for younger people, for dying humans everywhere, for a struggling world and suffering planet. Then I did what I do

When Only Kindness Makes Sense

On March 17, 2020 / Bereavement and End of Life, Health / 23 Comments

363 Just before our fortieth wedding anniversary in 2008, I drive my husband Vic to Strong Hospital where he’s being treated for lymphoma. The long drive is familiar after two years. Spring-green hillsides shout May vitality and

Choose What You Love

On March 3, 2020 / Family and Friends, Psychology and Mythology / 15 Comments

145 I lie in the dark in my lover’s arms listening to his slow sleeping breath. I’ve known him just a few months, but he’s the man I want to marry. A streetlight on West Seneca Street

Dreaming the Earth Mother, Searching for Ground

On February 18, 2020 / Creativity, Health, Psychology and Mythology / 16 Comments

296 I’ve always felt grounded, sturdy in my hiking boots on a challenging trail, but there is no “always” in bodies. We change constantly, quickly or slowly. In 2013, as my L ear roared and the hearing

When Joy Breaks Through Grief

On February 4, 2020 / Bereavement and End of Life, Family and Friends, Nature / 9 Comments

In 2010, eighteen months after my husband died, I longed for relief from constant sorrow, so joined three friends for an adventure to Gasparilla Island, Florida. Instead of sunshine and warmth, we faced unusually cold, cloudy weather,

Artemis Adopts a Pup: A Fanciful Ancient Greek Diary

On January 21, 2020 / Psychology and Mythology / 19 Comments

September I’ve had dogs all my life, so I should know how to raise them. The God Pan brought me a litter of six black pups and said they could be trained to hunt lions. I chose

When We Were Almost Poor

On January 7, 2020 / Family and Friends, Political Action / 25 Comments

“I hear a baby calling,” I said to my husband Vic in 1970. After a day at Big Basin Redwoods State Park, we were driving toward the tiny stucco house we rented near a walnut orchard and

Here Comes the Sun

On December 24, 2019 / Nature, Psychology and Mythology / 17 Comments

177 It won’t be long before the Earth is tinged with color in the snowy land where I live. In these cold dark days, it helps to remember Nature is preparing for a new season. Through the