The most recent translation of my Midlife Collage will examine the latest elements that I was guided to add. They bring some interesting medicine! parsley – I utilize plant medicine as part of my energy work, so seeing parsley was a cue to me to ask parsley for some medicine. Parsley is associated with regeneration, helping one have…
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Glorious Debris
I’ve been making intentional collages for over 20 years. (Collage, of course, is an art technique named from the French, in which one brings together disparate parts to create something new.) I did as a kid, but I started in earnest in my first year teaching art in the Atlanta public schools. Maybe it was because the…
Running into the Arms of Great Mother, part 3
While I was unmistakably being drawn ever deeper into a mystery that seemed to reside within my own being, my prickly mental self still fought the concept of the goddess. This is where my inner “immature masculine” had been holding court all of these years since I’d had babies and devoted time to the feminine…
Running into the Arms of Great Mother, part 1
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. ~Spanish Proverb I thought I might open the window into my process a bit today by sharing with you my recognition that I needed a Mother in my life, and how that led me to the Sacred Feminine. My biological mother was a physically beautiful,…
Epiphanies on Epiphany
I’m not a scholar on Christian holy days; I observe spiritual traditions that make sense to me, that have personal meaning to me. Until yesterday, Epiphany flew by unnoticed. The 12th day of Christmas, Epiphany is the oldest of the Christmas festivals and originally the most important. It is the day traditionally celebrated in Christian…
