Fourteen years ago, in mid-December, I met the man who I am now married to at a Shopper Christmas party. One week later, my mother passed away peacefully on the night of the winter solstice. I nestled close to her now cool body until the ambulance arrived. This year, there will be no Shopper party […]
Tag: Spirituality
PATIENCE
When my daughter was in nursery school, her favorite song starred a snail and had the following refrain: “Be patient, be patient, don’t be in such a hurry/when you get impatient, you only start to worry.” These words have popped back into my mind in the last few weeks, as we have been dealing with […]
Living Stones, Loving Earth & Now
Life as we know it is changing, shifting. We can feel it in our bones and in our hearts. Many are the explanations offered for these new times we struggle to wrap our minds around. For those who truly follow the ancient Toltec/Mayan ways, this is because we are in a time of transition from […]
Living Stones, Loving Earth & Now
Life as we know it is changing, shifting. We can feel it in our bones and in our hearts. Many are the explanations offered for these new times we struggle to wrap our minds around. For those who truly follow the ancient Toltec/Mayan ways, this is because we are in a time of transition from […]
Teaching what we don’t know
We are brought up to think that we should only teach what we really know well. Expertise is so highly prized in our culture and many of us spend long years and decades of our lives studying enough of some topic to be able to be considered a teacher. And yet, perhaps, in some cases […]
TEACHING WHAT WE DON’T KNOW
We are brought up to think that we should only teach what we really know well. Expertise is so highly prized in our culture and many of us spend long years and decades of our lives studying enough of some topic to be able to be considered a teacher. And yet, perhaps, in some cases […]
Prayer for my Community
PRAYER FOR MY COMMUNITY Sharing a prayer I wrote for a ceremony that will appear in the 2016 WE ‘Moon Agenda. Dear community, we come to you small spirits on a winding path at the turning of these days, at the changing of the cycles. Please open the way for our small and humble […]
SHINING LIFE
It is only when we give up the strife; moving forward to create a resplendent shining life, that we access the simplest of secrets which is that all the universe and the universes yet to be born dwell within each of our tiny cells, just as they do in Sirius, Pluto and Orion. So rejoice […]
ANDEAN RITUAL CLEANING – From my monthly column in Keene, NH
I am writing this article from Otavalo, Ecuador, after a visit with the shaman Jorge Tamayo who recently carried out a ritual cleaning for me. Don Jorge, as he is known, is a gentle spoken man of an indescribable age who speaks Quechua and a spotty Spanish. About five feet tall, he lives with his […]
“The Cuban Connection” – Chapter from my novel “The Spirits of Jade” (2011, Carnelian Press)
-Chapter 30 from “The Spirits of Jade,” Skye Stephenson – The Cuban Connection Barbara did manage to convince Jade to go to the art exhibit on 23rd Street. What had done the trick was when Jade learned that the exhibit was at the Center for Cuban Studies. According to Barbara, several of the top painters […]
