This is the Moment
The wind is cold on rock point; gulls cry out echoing aloneness, crows bark to protect their young fledges as eagle rides the thermals. It’s warmer in the cabin, easier to drink tea within the comfort than here where the air bites and a gray chill presses down. She’s emerged from Her chrysalis; I see […]
Weaving a New Pattern
A cold northerly wind follows the ebb tide, water and air temperature equal at half the human Fahrenheit, pushing back the effort to lessen the long grip of winter. I put my hands upon the Earth yesterday with saw and shear saying yes or no, thinning madrona that thrives on this rock, fighting back thorns […]
Oceans of Morning
One day of summer and again skies are heavy laden, air cool, water gray green and impassive; otter and I are alone in the cove, his speckled head popping up scanning the shore for predators, before arching his back in a fluid S diving below to an unseen depth. I want to travel to such […]
Summer Solstice
Madronas wave in the breeze, leaves and branches lofted like sail in a fluid green lattice flowing with sea force. Wind and tide, sun and cloud, half moon arcing across Mail Bay, the quiet tangible, visceral, nurturing yet invisible. Fluttering leaves and the deep well of solace, lifted from the ebb tide, stirring into the […]
Into the Forever Reach
Steady rain on the island, drip, drip, drip.. awakening swells across the channel, lifted by wind and tide. Ocean surging to the lunar pull, always lifting, rising until gravity drops and waters rush back. Waiting upon dark night with stars above the sea, listening for moon song to travel once more into the forever reach […]
Gaia’s Lover
She called out from an island, one among many of the inland sea. In first light he raced with the ebb keen to remain with the current for the miles yet to travel, yet as she lifted the veil from her beauty he startled and turned, his gaze then his boat, paddling toward the vision […]
Calm in the Rapids
Together we hear the waterfall like thunder in the distance; rapid after rapid the spills and breaks have worn thin our gear, our determination. We carry an image in our hearts of a green valley beyond the precipice, yet the fear of what approaches runs through our nerves like water. We cannot reverse; the river […]
Singing the Voice of Our Long Love
You and I have been together since the sun first glinted in the shallows, beneath your wading skirt and laughing children; around campfires, torturous loves, over countless rivers and mountains when the seas were smaller, and our original home intact. After a thousand mornings while rivers yet flow and tides awaken, I call out to […]
Morning Devotion
Quieting the tempest of thought inner seas begin to calm, the weight of expectation sinking. Waves of animosity laying down until surface mirrors the open sky, a deeper presence within the Earth rising through bedrock and lifted to the temple finding form in breadth of water, still before the morning sun. […]
By Inner Light
Despite the storm and rough unanswerable seas, with night sky like smoke and vapor, we take our bearings from the pulse of tide perceiving signals amidst a fury. Knowing from within where the stars are pointing, moving forward by inner light.
Solitary Cairn
Amidst the change and no change, the waves of geology, finance, politics and war, one small stone sits alone in my inner temple. A solitary cairn marking direction, speaking no sound, just the quietly assuring granite of one long ago and yet to come moment, held in my heart, unmoving.
Mother’s Day
I have this thing in common with birds, we like to find a perch and watch the rising sun, to feel the warmth and greet new light. With native elders, monks and sisters round the globe, training their eyes to be with Source and thank the Mother in a simple gesture, a practice amidst the […]
She is Giving Birth
Thick clouds and cold air confuse the expectation, as if we’re turning retrograde toward winter. In the Gulf of Mexico Gaia’s artery lays open, altering the sea irrevocably; fish and birds are witness to a threshold crossed. Sky brightens through the clouds but an eerie sense remains of a strange new time. Gaia integrates, but […]
She Simply Says Yes
The Earth may be tired of giving birth to countless leaves and birds, from the fountain where we drink the daylight of our one precious life. Perhaps it is only my feeling of loss for Her altar, and in a shallow lake today two swans appeared. One nested a muddy trash strewn island, the other […]
Camas Blue
Seals fish off the point as sun breaks through low clouds on spring camas blue, brightening the old stone with her delicate color, sending a message through rock of what may come in a morning.