Yosemite Falls This ceremony from Silo’s Message, intended to be read aloud to the dying at the moment of their departure, is also a beautiful meditation that can help us prepare for one day crossing that threshold ourselves. I
Read moreReport from the Trenches – observations after the death of a beloved partner
Walt & Trudi on the Tilikum Crossing – “Bridge of the People” – in Portland …a word from the Kind Watcher and the Little “i” How real is Anything??? My “reality” changes with whatever I imagine. Fear and hope run
Read moreDay of the Winged Lioness Podcast: The Great Change
I have a story for you – a very short story with a very happy ending, one that would turn the tide of our current disastrous direction. I even claim that it’s true – truer than anything you’ll ever hear
Read moreFrank the Crow and the Coming of the Light
Photo by ashim ayed on Unsplash Frank woke, beady eyes alert in the unaccustomed dark. Nearby, Molly, Jasper, Fred, Curly, and Jess were all sound asleep, as they should be, hunkered in the highest branches of the elm, grasping their
Read moreDay of the Winged Lioness Podcast: Words and Music on Peace and Immortality
Mini-episode: Words & Music on Peace & Immortality Unleash Peace Peace lives inside of each of us sleeping in our core Find it! Find it! Go inside, slip through that inner door and steal into your heart of hearts
Read moreFloating into 2022
Hello dear fellow human being! Here I sit, on this sparkling January day in Portland, Oregon at the very beginning of 2022, imagining who on earth you might be – of all the possible “you’s” who might be reading these
Read moreTwo Poems for My Friends
A Deeper Life for all my loves Dear one, neither of us is ready to say goodbye, gone all possibility of touching one to one through this our delicate integument But if it’s you who takes the lead you’ll find
Read moreBilly and Me
“When we can understand that inside us lives not an enemy, but a being filled with hopes and failures, with beautiful moments of fulfillment as well as moments of frustration and resentment… When we can understand that our enemy has also
Read moreLove Song
How can I find a way to tell you how bright you are how bright you are? For I do know the precious being the one you are the one you are And all the gentleness I feel toward you
Read morePeace in Times of War
A new podcast episode in response to the war in Ukraine. This war freaks me out. Because of the real life horror of it, but also, of course, because of what might possibly, unthinkably happen, IF… When the news first
Read moreThey can’t fool me…
The other day someone broke into my private space. I’d just received some minor bad news, and was wallowing in misery over all the horrors that could possibly ensue, when a voice I didn’t recognize piped up almost apologetically: “Don’t
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