Contemplating abstract artwork is a way to wake up our hearts and find a doorway into the inner landscape. It offers us something quieter, deeper: a wordless language.

He is one of many who,
while walking the road of daily-ness,
catches a fragrance
so tantalizing, so familiar

like no other thing there are categories for,
and cannot not follow it.

Snapshots of granular moments of becoming as I work toward an aim to develop finer discrimination and attention.

Has anything ever been more clear? Anything more obscure?

Spiritual practices for holding uncertainty, grief, disorientation, restlessness, and dark night seasons with presence, compassion, and deep listening.

Friends, I mustn’t tell you the way,
but lean your heart in close;
I'll cover my whisper.

As we slow down to explore subtle inner experiences weaving through daily-ness, fleeting felt senses of a different quality shimmer.

When the gut-punch of anguish hit me hard, I collaged wisdom that called to me in songs and images.

As social media is changing, algorithms are making it difficult to get the word out about what we are creating. I want to spread the word about cool things that are available to support us in this vital work of tending our souls.

I’ve been carrying an evocative question as I continue this work of “becoming.”

Last week, my friend Janice sent me a text about climate grief, imagination, and the longing for stories that might call us into presence and co-creation. As I replied, I wondered whether what moves hearts is not narrative alone, but the presence from which a narrative is spoken.

In the return,
in the silence,
a permeable fractal
perceives Source.

We are alive, friends. It’s painful and exquisite. There is so much darkness. It’s real. Death is all around us. Unaddressed pain has mixed with power and fragmented us, but we are encircled by a Love that is permeating the darkness in the most creative ways. 

There’s a communal nature to wisdom. Our journeys overlap — sometimes in physical life, and sometimes outside of it — words and presence across time and space.

A simple, art-based spiritual practice for listening to your inner experience and moving from head knowing to heart knowing.

Like Amanda and Graham in The Holiday, I’m meeting this next moment with a heart as open as I can muster, taking a step into the unfamiliar.

For much of my life, I sought answers before I began walking. I'm finding practices that support me in living into the questions.

A 10-ish minute spiritual practice -- bringing curiosity to a quote on complexity by Dr. Neil Theise.