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

My email feed and Facebook page burn with coronavirus news and magic ways to avoid…

My Land and Home Spirituality

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

I dropped into a Deep Well of Grief this morning. I grieved for dreams shattered,…

Bereavement and End of Life Health

When Only Kindness Makes Sense

Just before our fortieth wedding anniversary in 2008, I drive my husband Vic to Strong…

Vic & Elaine in 1990s
Family and Friends Psychology and Mythology

Choose What You Love

I lie in the dark in my lover’s arms listening to his slow sleeping breath.…

Creativity Health Psychology and Mythology

Dreaming the Earth Mother, Searching for Ground

I’ve always felt grounded, sturdy in my hiking boots on a challenging trail, but there…

Bereavement and End of Life Family and Friends Nature

When Joy Breaks Through Grief

In 2010, eighteen months after my husband died, I longed for relief from constant sorrow,…

Disco at 5 months
Psychology and Mythology

Artemis Adopts a Pup: A Fanciful Ancient Greek Diary

September I've had dogs all my life, so I should know how to raise them.…

Family and Friends Political Action

When We Were Almost Poor

“I hear a baby calling,” I said to my husband Vic in 1970. After a…

Winter Solstice at Stonehenge, Wikimedia Commons
Nature Psychology and Mythology

Here Comes the Sun

It won't be long before the Earth is tinged with color in the snowy land…

Photo by Lisa Baechtle
Family and Friends

How to Build a Heart Fire

The sky darkened from dusk to inky blue. Disco the sweet black pup became an…