Licia’s Blog
The Land Where We Belong
For many years I had the odd awareness that "my body was the earth". I don't know quite how to explain the sensation of feeling earthquakes in my belly, or feeling trees being cut down in the Amazon in my heart....but it was a sensation that the planet and my body...
It Begins
Jess and I leave for our spiritual journey tomorrow morning EARLY...we are going to try to make for San Antonio, a long 14 hour drive from Tallahassee, Florida. We have been packing and pulling special equipment together (ceremonial things), journals, art supplies,...
Update on Jess 4 Months After
Dear hearts, so many wonderful things are happening for Jess and I want to update you! First we want to thank you all again for holding us in your hearts since our lives took an even deeper turn into the miraculous (I didn't know that was possible!) Our lives are so...
Intruder in the Night
Tonight at around 3am (July 26) is the anniversary of a violent experience that unalterably shaped me and my family of origin for the rest of our lives. Strangely, without my conscious intent, I found myself exploring this event this morning. Even if my mind forgets,...
Change the Dream
written on Day 88 - June 21, 2013, Summer Solstice I've been thinking lately about the traumatic brain injury Jess sustained 12 weeks ago and the way we are framing it in our family. Our decision to view it as an initiation into a new life is a way of making good from...
Home
Pulled by some indistinct calling, she walked west, toward the sunset in the open sky above a corn field. She was answering a higher voice that told her to head to her homeland, and to do ceremony to heal her father's lineage. Not knowing what she would be asked to...
Soul Compost – Transforming Adversity into Spiritual Growth, 2012
The choice to make good from her challenges was a decision to “compost” the adversity in her life, growing a thriving, enlivened being full of heart. With a keen eye of observation and understanding as well as startling insights about the evolution of human consciousness, the author shares an inspiring story of finding her way home to herself and to a purposeful, joyous life. Insightful, moving, and courageous, SOUL COMPOST argues that each of us is a Warrior and has the resilience to recover from difficulty to make beauty out of hardship. (Memoir, Inspirational, Feminist – 222 pages)
Claimed by the Earth – with guest writer Jess Berry
Day 78 For those of you who are reading for Jess' updates, the physical report is a good one: his head continues to heal, his brain continues to come online (he will be attending school in the fall here in Tallahassee), and his physical therapy has been stretched to...
Abiding Natural Law
We cannot escape the dual nature of existence. There are some "spirituality" movements that have attempted to transcend the dual nature of existence, but it cannot be transcended while we are in physical form. Not completely. We always have to come back to our...
Vision Quest…Mapping the Story of our Life
I've been going on Vision Quest solo for years. Not the Hollywood-ized or New Age version, but a modern woman/wife/mom taking herself out of her life and going somewhere alone without a plan, putting herself in the hands of the universe for the purpose of cleansing...