ideas for a new earth

Word of the Moon: Shed

This post was sent to my newsletter at the new moon, as part of the Word of the Moon series. If you'd like to receive this when it's...

Retreat from Urgency: Healing the frantic mind

Breath moves inward, warming as it comes. A single moment of high tension, and air sweeps along tiny hairs in an exodus from my body. A...

a poem: advection

sedge sways windways, its flowers drop and blow swallows wallow, swooping windward, to where the bluestem grows. the city inside is...

Mystery made material: on loving despicable things

How do we love despicable things? The fly that brings disease, the soiled hand, the rotting heap. Disgust can be a survival mechanism...

Patience and potency

There was a time in my life when I lived by speed. The drive to produce, to accomplish, to see and do overwhelmed other values - and I...