I’ve really been struggling lately and have had some pretty dark moments…hours and days even. I’m no stranger to grief and existential depression, and though my experience tells me that real growth and expansion often comes about from these periods I’ve navigated throughout my life, these times are extra heavy and uncertain. I’m rather self-sufficient,... Continue Reading →
Several years ago I found the delightful poem “The Magic Box” and used it as a springboard to a writing activity for my K-5th graders. They wrote beautiful lines—even my first graders—like I will put in my box…yellow lemonade pouring into a glass and one large green leaf floating on the water…the little red house... Continue Reading →
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 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
*This post was originally written on January 14, 2022 Its my birthday. It’s been a tough day. Work in the current state of things has been exhausting. Yesterday, I finished my 10th day of subbing in a row and those anxiety proboking “Is it allergies or is it Covid?” symptoms that keep cycling through were... Continue Reading →
I’ve been deep in it since I woke up this morning—reading about grief, talking about it and writing about it. It’s a griefy time of year for me—turns out that’s true for a lot of people. What I’m learning about this whole body experience is soul soothing and a lot all at once. I was... Continue Reading →
Internal Luminosity 