Have you ever imagined what life would be like for you or someone you love at the Old Mermaids Sanctuary? Have you thought about sipping Coyote Whispers tea at the Tea Shell or listening to Grand Mother Yemaya Mermaid tell tales as you walked with her and Sister Lyra Musica Mermaid along the wash looking for what else had washed ashore when the Old Sea dried up? Or maybe you imagined yourself up in the mountains with Sister Ursula Divine Mermaid as you stalked your own true self. Continue Reading »
(Sometimes when my writing posts are also about healing, I will post them here.)
It is dusk and I’m sitting in the Quail House working for the first time since I arrived here at our retreat. This is the first time I’ve felt relaxed since we got here. Well, maybe not the first time. When I was doing healing work for my dad and for other people, I was relaxed. I was in the flow. Felt like I was doing something. And no story was knocking on my subconscious demanding to be written. No character was whispering in my ear. Continue Reading »
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Yesterday I walked in the woods with a friend of mine. She invited me over to collect wild herbs. She talks to the plants, too. She thanks them. She listens for their wants and needs. I drove to her house and then she took me to a patch of nettles. It was my destiny. Yes, I had a date with destiny and her name was Stinging Nettles. Continue Reading »
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Summer Solstice Blessings for you all
I greet you with the beauty of the morning sun,
I greet you with the coolness of the morning breeze,
I greet you with the song of the robin,
I greet you with the tickle of the damp grass,
I greet you with the beauty of the morning sky. Continue Reading »
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I have talked to trees, rocks, birds, and “imaginary” friends since I was a child. When I was a girl, I never asked for proof that any of these “people” heard me or cared what I said. I never asked for proof of their existence.
Yet I was (and am) a scientist at heart. I am a storyteller and practitioner of the healing and visionary arts, too. It is a mix that blends quite nicely, thank you very much. Every healing practitioner I know wants to use only methods that actually work.
I love research. I love experiments. I want to know what healing modalities work and how long they work. Perhaps quantum physics can explain why sometimes one method of healing helps and another doesn’t, depending upon the person or the time of the day! How can a particle be at point A and then (seemingly) instantly arrive at point B? How can light be a particle and a wave? How can a healer send healing long distance to a client who then gets better because of that healing? Could all of these questions be answered by the quantum idea that we are all linked or “entangled?” ” Continue Reading »
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This morning, I ate grated sweet potatoes that Mario had baked in the oven with a bit of olive oil. I also had a basted egg and a serving of steamed vegetables: broccoli, cauliflower, pea pods, carrots, cabbage, and garlic. All organic. Before I ate, I thanked Mario, the plants, and the chicken for my food. I thanked the sun and the wind and the water for my breakfast. I put my hands over it all and seasoned it with my own silent blessing. Then I feasted.
The word nourish comes from a Latin word which means “feed, cherish.”
Let’s do a little exercise here. Close your eyes and imagine that you love and cherish yourself. Imagine that you are worthy of good health, worthy of joy and happiness. Imagine that your True Self is filling you up so that you are full of yourself—your True Self who is strong, healthy, intuitive and who knows how to Be in the world. Then ask yourself this: How do I feed and cherish my True Self? Continue Reading »
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Salmon are the soul of the place where I make my home in the Columbia River Gorge. I have believed that for as long as I can remember. They are nearly extinct, driven to their ends by the dams, logging, global warming, overfishing, and pollution. Millions of dollars have been spent studying the salmon, trying to figure out how to save them. Some believe the wild salmon is already extinct in the Nch’I Wana—the Columbia River; some say only fishery salmon make the trip down the Big River to the ocean and then back again.
The River people of this area, as well as most other aboriginal peoples of the North Pacific Rim, have depended upon salmon as a food and spiritual source for thousands of years. Tribes in the Pacific Northwest still celebrate the First Salmon and the returning salmon. Continue Reading »
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When I was ill for a long period of time and looking for relief, people would often say, “There is a difference between being healed and being cured.” In other words, they were saying, I could be happy even if I wasn’t in good physical health. I found little comfort in that for a long while. I wanted to be cured of what ailed me. That is what most people want. I’ve come to realize that we are ever-changing beings—sometimes healthy, sometimes ill—and traveling along the Healing Way is a beautiful, mysterious, and sometimes terrifying pilgrimage.
This said, I have been sick and I have been healthy. And healthy is definitely better! The word health comes from a Germanic word which means “whole.” We are not static creatures. We change. We despair. We are joyful. We love. We hate. We create. We destroy. We get lost. We are found. We get stuck in the Ruts of our life on our way to healing. Sometimes we set up shop in those Ruts. And then someone, Visible or Invisible, gives us a hand up and we’re back walking the Healing Way. Continue Reading »
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