Messages from Sky and Crow
My Murder has been growing in number with just a sampling here of the 10 or more that frequently show up now. I was thinking that perhaps it is the unusual cold. The past couple of days, there has been one waiting for me on the railing and one that hangs around after all the... Continue Reading →
Met My Old Lover in the Grocery Store…
Met my old lover in the grocery store. It wasn’t Christmas Eve but a couple of weeks before. I didn’t recognize you at first, we hugged in the dairy department and that’s where it ends. It wasn’t the sweet reminiscing that a former manifestation of my Self might have magicalized into being. I thought I... Continue Reading →
An Invitation to Explore with Me in the New Year
Dear Friends, On this New Year's Eve Eve, I wanted to share something with you with an eye to 2025. Sharing is both exciting for me and requiring a bit of courage. So, if you choose to take a moment to read this, I will be deeply grateful to you. This past summer, through the... Continue Reading →
Remembering Mama Louann
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14o337Pp9Soky0DrYtdUl4gQgxz4pC6Au/view?usp=sharing Mom When you live to be nearly a century old, you live a series of lives, really. Your chances to make mistakes of all shapes and sizes grows exponentially...to cause hurt, to endure hardships, to mend fissures, to try again, to process sorrows and to find and create beauty and joy in the world.... Continue Reading →
Celebrating the Life and Light of Louann Bielmann
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 →
