Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire. – St. John of the Cross Sometimes, life has a way of ripping the foundations out from under us. Of dealing us a scenario, or series of scenarios, in which our current ways of coping and constructing meaning are inadequate. As a…

Therefore Jung postulated an unus mundus, a unitary world, which when observed from outside appears as matter and when observed from inside appears as the collective unconscious. – Marie-Louise Von Franz Our birthright vitality and consciousness, from which the technological world likes to separate us, remain rooted in the adaptability of our bodies and the…

White-breasted Nuthatch (male) Every year, I put pumpkins on my front porch in the fall. And when fall is over, or when it’s time to transition from Thanksgiving to Christmas decor, I usually cut up the pumpkins and put them in the woods behind my home for the deer and other critters to eat. Earlier…

on this morning, as on every other,i am a poet of disbelief which is better, I think, thanbelieving too strongly without room to be amazedtake, for example, the sunwhich sets the whole machine to rumblingthe toothbrushes in motion the feet strapped inthe hair still lightlydamp against the collarwhat an infinite rambling this life isand how…

I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music and I’ll bolt the door. – J. D. Salinger Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of…

To the Moon and Back, paper collage, 2025 The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To them… a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover…

A recipe has no soul. You as the cook must bring soul to the recipe. – Thomas Keller The kitchen, for me, is the center of the home. It is a sacred space, a place of ritual, intention, and celebration, a place where poetry is made. And cooking isn’t just about nourishment. It’s about comforting…

Artwork by PattahSee2019 To date, all of my discussions of the total goddess or mother goddess or Great Mother—all terms point to the same entity—have centered on the ways in which women can better relate to her, as a psychological construct, by rewriting the feminine archetypes. This is a process I call self-fashioning, and it…

Ernest Howard Shepard, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons when the madness knocks at your door, my child, never forget that your ancestors are butterfliesand the trees are your friends I hate the ending of The House at Pooh Corner. I fall apart when Christopher Robin says goodbye to his friends in the enchanted forest because…