It has been 23 weeks since my last post ( Read more... )

I just got back from my second meeting with Heartsdesire, we focused on fetch again and the practices of shape-shifting as well as traveling into Faery/Underworld with our fetch beasts. This work seems like it will be very juicy, because these two things are topics I have always struggled with ( Read more... )

I realize it has been 15 weeks since I last posted anything. So here's whats up ( Read more... )

I am greatly saddened to here of Cora's death. I was lucky to have seen her so much in the past 9 months. She was often witty and humorous as well as in pain. I am glad though, that she no longer has to endure the pain of her aging body. She was great at telling stories and giving gossip, especially when provoked by Jim Schutte to give "Pearls of ( Read more... )

I call to the wild
The Fey
Those that hide
In the shadows
Playing at the edge of day
You who grow from the glowing core
Reach to the twilit sky
And
Join our rites once more

Persimmons ( Read more... )

Well this weekend Ian and I moved from Lake Merritt in Oakland to San Leandro to live in what is basically a CO-OP. I already feel so much more at home than I have felt in the past three months. With the help of really supportive and amazing friends and my wonderful mom we were able to move all of our stuff in less than two hours ( Read more... )

This weekend I had a really good time with my mom visiting various places in the Bay Area. She came up here to attend a "Contemporary Shamanism" class, that was to be the first of a series. I had met the teacher before, she had done a reading for me and was very accurate. Anyway my mom wanted me to go to the intro class with her, to ask questions ( Read more... )

In one of my classes, we have been discussing the interconnectedness of everything. Whether expressed in living systems, biological evolution, cosmological development (considering that science might be right about an origin point, I think they are) or parallel development in the consciousness of cultures. Anyway, we are having a discussion about ( Read more... )

In my critical thinking class we were introduced to, what I found to be an amazing poem entitled "A work of Artifice," from poet Marge Percy in her book "Circles on the Water: Selected Poem" NY: Knopf 1994 ( Read more... )