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Seasonal Writing
Essays and reflections for living in relationship with the natural world.
A growing collection of writing on the Five Elements, folklore, mythology, astrology, and the changing seasons, tracing conversations between nature, psyche, culture, and the ways we live.
Winter Solstice
What fear requires most is the conditions that allow the nervous system to remember its safety. The three dark months of winter are a gift of retreat and repose because a healthy relationship with fear does exist. Here we remember that we can trust the river. That we will find the sea.
The Winter Solstice
While in the dark quiet of such, deep listening rises for the hearing, and so the way to the deep caverns of our Inner Light—bright, luminous and steady, no matter the state of the outer world.
Introducing the Water Element
Of all the Five Elements, Water is the hardest to truly know. Governing the kidney and bladder channels in the back of the body, Water holds a mystical depth that can’t be fully grasped, urging us to surrender, trust, and embrace its transformative flow