Rivers As Relatives: A 4-Part Series ~ Read Now
The Home Depot cart return was a mess. Shopping carts strewn everywhere, jutting out at odd angles, threatening to escape back into the parking lot. Evidence of modern life’s haste and indifference. I pushed my cart in and spent an extra second clicking it into…
For weeks after I read this book, I couldn’t speak about it without crying. Not because I was sad about what we did to the Native American people—I was, but that’s not why. I felt personally devastated that I hadn’t…
This is Part 5 of the series From Ego to Soul: Remembering the Right Brain’s Wisdom.
It seems she was usurped by the written word. The Great Goddess reigned supreme for 30,000 years of documented human existence, she lived in the hearts of both men and women—they worshiped her as…
This is Part 4 of the series From Ego to Soul: Remembering the Right Brain’s Wisdom.
“The ancient Vedic scriptures declare that the physical world operates under one fundamental law of maya, the principle of relativity and duality.”
Autobiography of a Yogi is a powerful, life-changing book. It’s a modern-day account of the spiritual masters of India, written by…
Years of spiritual work and meditation had left me with one burning question: How do I move beyond the ego, so I can live from my soul—know it, hear it, follow it? Much to my surprise, I didn’t find the answer to my…
This is Part 2 of the series From Ego to Soul: Remembering the Right Brain’s Wisdom.
Some say Jamestown VA is the birthplace of American democracy; others say it’s Philadelphia PA. But in truth, it isn’t either of those places — the Native Americans formed a fully functioning democracy in the area of NY centuries before a single colonist arrived. Their…
In response to the question, “How do you paint a tree?” John Carlson wrote a beautiful section on the need to understand trees. “Know your trees, their nature, their growth, their movement; understand that they are conscious, living things, with tribulations and desires not wholly…
The equinox arrives twice a year, and most of us barely notice. We might acknowledge it as the first day of fall or spring, but we miss the deeper meaning. Indigenous cultures have always known that these times are more than just marks on the…
“I could never draw something like that.” My niece was seven. When I first started taking my artwork seriously, my sister asked me to make an animal drawing for her birthday. She had seen a zebra drawing of mine and wanted something similar for herself….
In 2022, something extraordinary happened: salmon went to court. Not as evidence. Not as a resource to be managed. But as plaintiffs — beings with inherent rights…
This is Part 3 of the Rivers As Relatives series exploring our relationship with water, salmon, and nature’s rights.
If you’re born into a system, and so are those who raise you and live around you, it’s very difficult to recognize the system—until someone finds all the research on the time before the system existed, and then…
This is Part 3 of the series From Ego to Soul: Remembering the Right Brain’s Wisdom.
Should the Earth have legal rights? Here’s a better question: does the Earth need them? As mother to us all…
This is the final part of the Rivers As Relatives series exploring our relationship with water, salmon, and nature’s rights.
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