Last year, I attended a workshop with Mexican healer Sergio Magaña at the Open Center in New York City. A portion of this two-day workshop focused on the Mayan/Aztec calendar. Like some of you, I followed the hype around 2012 with its myriad books and scary movies about how this was going to be the […]
Dreams and the Dark Times
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Dreams and the Dark Times
About five months ago, I had a dream so clear and precise that even now I can close my eyes and see the scene unfold before me in intricate detail. It opened with me alone, clutching tightly a blue and white pottery shard I had found in my trip to Greece last year. It may […]
Turtle Island Gone Awry
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Turtle Island Gone Awry
Said Indian chief Inside moon ledge Eagle flies high In forever skies A tear drop – You and I – Melded in timeless trust Of ever-ending cycles. Rhythms of time Space unfurled Trespassers both Between two liminal worlds “I’m sorry” I say to you Reaching across spans of centuries Time unheralded Ice ages come and […]
Two Silver Plates and the Wall
I inherited two small silver plates from my mother when she passed a decade ago. They are family heirlooms with a story attached. A gift to my step-great grandfather, William Morris Stewart, the first Senator from Nevada and a self-made millionaire through silver mining in the Wild West days. He was also a lawyer, originally […]
Healing Repetitive Patterns in Our Lives
We have all experienced it. We promise ourselves that we won’t repeat something our mother or father or aunt or uncle or other family member did that we don’t like. And then we end up doing the same thing, wondering how come we can’t break out of this pattern despite our best intentions. For me, […]
Eclipsed Rose
O Rose quartz, she does know with her glittery show that it is by the mullein leaf wise where the mushrooms do grow. Murdered nights and slain days– O save me, dear Rose Quartz, by the river so wide And may the eagle fly free, not weighted down by you and me and out impossible […]
Mystical Morn
Jerusalem I sing to you A song of longing A song of lament A song of ancestors yet to be born A song of crucifixions Still being carried out in your holy name. Jerusalem I sing to you of justice gone awry– Of sacred soil so sacrosanct crystallized into coarse, unleavened bread that crumbles and […]
Healing with the Stone that Cuts
Obsidian is not a fancy or flashy stone. It is not one that is typically used for expensive jewelry or takes the center stage at gem shows and displays. Often piercingly black, it can sometimes be mahogany brown or forest green or rust red. It may contain inclusions that looks like shiny stars or silvery […]
