Mother of Us All
May 14, 2023
Oh, mother. Is there a more complex, complicated figure in our lives? Who else is more pivotal, more revered, reviled, scapegoated and projected upon than
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Tom Waits and a Place for Birds to Land
April 18, 2023
“I like the idea that there are things coming in through the window and through you and then down to the piano and out the
Themes of the Year
March 6, 2023
A belated but jubilantly Happy New Year to you, friends. This year (2+0+2+3) moves us from the relational, “other-oriented” six to the mysteriously mighty seven. There is
Quiet Answers
September 22, 2022
Happy Equinox, friends. For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere the interiority of night is closing in now, shrouding the sun’s light, that outward
Applied Mythology
August 9, 2022
Artist Malika Ali Harding wrote a great article recently for Puttylike on her interests in “woo woo” practices and her experience working with this woo
James Baldwin on Freedom
February 18, 2022
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the
Your New Year Forecast
January 20, 2022
2022 reduces to the number 6: a number of compassion in the Kabbalist tradition, a number correlating with our intuition (the sixth spiritual body) in the Tantric tradition, and
The Stories We Serve
September 23, 2021
If I’ve learned anything from my work as a writer, healer and human, it’s that we are all storytellers. Think of the countless stories wafting