Category: Shamanism
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Sitting With Suffering
At sunrise, the sun illumines the brilliant red leaves of our maples. It is a cooler day of sun and cloud, the breeze producing brief showers of leaves from the trees. We’ve moved the overwintering plants into the house and this morning I wander room to room with a watering can. I’m reading through Natalie…
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On This Equinox
What a perfect early fall day! It was in the forties early this morning and temps will settle around seventy later. There is the promise of showers spread out over the rest of the week; although how much rain will fall is in question, so perhaps we will finally receive a true soaking. The light…
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After The Heat Wave
A day of intense sunlight. A few fair weather clouds drift here and yon across the great arc of blue sky. The local birds are raising their second or third broods while the osprey appear to be feeding chicks and more forcefully guarding their nests. We had three days of intense heat, which broke yesterday.…
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In the Presence of Mystery
Early evening and the light literally dances softly to the breezes. There is just the thinnest of overcasts. Yesterday was so windy that the air was filled with flying green leaves, as though we had jumped right to early fall. The wind brought down an immense pine tree at a nearby church, and with it,…
