Favorite essays… Death for Life Ritual 9 Jul 2026July 9, 2026 I’m downloading photos of houses being consumed in flames — huge wild oranges and yellows screaming in the black of the night. I wanna burn this shit to the ground. …
Favorite essays… Riding A Big Change 9 Jul 2026July 9, 2026 What follows is a broad view of transformational processes and how to navigate them; particularly ones that feel like a kind of death. This is strictly my perspective. I offer…
Favorite essays… Is it a coincidence? 7 Jul 2026July 9, 2026 What is coincidence and what do we mean by it? Everything that is happening now is happening at the same time — co-incidence. That’s interesting to ponder, but not what…
Favorite essays… To Be Loved Upon Surviving 7 Jul 2026July 9, 2026 Trigger warning for near death experience. I’m six years old, visiting my grandparents in the suburbs of Chicago. One day I make a new friend. This doesn’t happen very often…
Prompts Cracks in the World 29 Jun 2026July 7, 2026 Rigid structures or long repeated patterns don’t often change smoothly. Whether consciously intended by us, or via an emergent activity of the playing field, change will happen. Sometimes it takes…
Healing stories… The Currents and Our Kids 16 Sep 2020 Last week before the wildfire smoke took hold in our part of the world, a few friends socially distanced around a large fire pit, enjoying a small fire and big…
Moments… Nudged Back to Myself 16 Sep 2020 Feeling a stuck grieving of unknown details, and having enough presence and capacity, I turn to ceremonial Cacao for assistance. I pull out the precious block I got in Costa…
Eventful stories… A Ritual Emerges 2 Jun 2020September 11, 2020 As I sat under the trees and moonlight, with my fingers in the dirt, tapping in and being a mycelium fruiting body, I was made aware that I needed to do a…
Healing stories… The Dropped Pathpoints 2 May 2020July 8, 2026 For the last eight or nine months I've been on a journey uncovering some of what happened when I was a small child that has been subconscious and wreaking havoc…
Moments Holding a Mom’s hands through the shaking 18 Jul 2017July 29, 2020 I didn't get to hold my mom's hand through Parkinson's, she died before it progressed very far. But today I held someone else's mom's hands as they shook, waiting for…
Eventful stories… Trauma Revelation 6 May 2017September 16, 2020 An unexpected miracle from a death doula training conference I attended was the revelation of a trauma process in a contained time period, in vivid color. I wasn't aware of…
Healing stories… The End of Suicide 23 Feb 2017September 16, 2020 A powerful passion is burning through me. I am devouring the deliciousness of this holy fire. The deliciousness of my existence. The glory of the unraveling. The redemption of revelation.…
