Wishing you a lovely next leg of your journey, Mom. ✨ Louann Bielmann was born in Buffalo, New York in 1930. She later moved to Norfolk Virginia where she lived out the remainder of a full and vibrant 93 years. On October, 27, 2023, a warm and sunny day laced with a breeze that sent... Continue Reading →
I Do Not Know How Not to Look for Magic
I do not know how not to look for magic. It happens so naturally all around me in the more than human world. Upon a silent wish to the Universe to be buoyed up, turtles suddenly surface in sun dappled water to hold me in their intentional gaze while floating effortlessly. Without harm, hives of... Continue Reading →
Late Summer Visitation
I stand at the threshold to acknowledge this everyday sacred space. It is where blacktop gives way to soft dirt and brown pine needles, the din of fast moving cars blends into insect song and the entangled heart and mind gently release. I tilt my face to the highest boughs and spots of peaking blue... Continue Reading →
The Truth About Grief
There are some initially (sometimes quite) uncomfortable truths about grief. Unprocessed emotions don’t go away, they hunker down and live inside of us, stick to our bones and nerves and become a weight we carry around. Rather than hold and support us in times of grieving, society plies us with a plethora of addictions and... Continue Reading →
Transition Recovery: Grief for Boundless Energy We Were Not Given
Transition Recovery Staring at clouds through skylight, studying cracks in plaster, letting the rough aching inside scrub my bones clean while I stay quiet and still. Up out of bed, back down on the couch. Pulsing head and rising sorrow. Scrolling until it starts to feel a bit nauseating. Holding a book but not reading... Continue Reading →
An Invitation
Dear Friends, Would you consider joining me? This has been a year (for non-education folks, I think in school years) of change and risk and learning and excitement and opportunities and loss and travel and heartache. Amidst it all, I completed level 3 of my ecotherapy training which focused on some really tough topics in... Continue Reading →
In a Winter Garden
This first line has been telling itself to me for years. It took complete surrender to my own deep winter to learn to hear the rest. The bones presented themselves to me on a recent winter walk, and I knew the whole piece had arrived. IN A WINTER GARDEN In a winter garden when all... Continue Reading →
Happy Spring
On this Vernal Equinox, the need to hold both sorrow for the Earth and the world and Hope felt compelling to me. The sky this evening was a perfect mix of dark and light and blossomy pink. Wishing you some hope and offering to you and asking you to send further out into the world... Continue Reading →
Kinds of Love
Love comes in so many forms—bonds both observable and invisible. I don’t know if there is anything so profound as love of a creature or a tree or a space in nature. Mostly because it requires so much stillness and attention to open yourself to a consciousness of these living things that have their own... Continue Reading →
Still shining bright, Sister Stardust!
I’ll look for you in the full moon tonight! ✨🌕✨ 😌
Internal Luminosity 