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Water forgives. Wind blows with storms of courage. Soil opens its arms to all beginnings. Trees breathe in. We exhale and choose the seeds to dream. A poet recalls the document of her body again.

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Bibliomancy: Soul or Survival 10/11/2023

Bibliomancy: Soul or Survival This week is the question of soul or survival amongst so much chaos and confusion in the world. Bibliomancy with The Red Book by C.G. Jung. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit /episode/index/show/1e1f88ea-0344-406d-ae50-e77e1d016290/id/31090318

Poem: The Story of the Sun & the City 10/09/2023

Poem: The Story of the Sun & the City Ever have a poem grab you by the throat when you least expect it but maybe most need it? This Monday's poem did just that with me a few nights ago. Not too sure if I'm entirely grateful for the pleasure of waltzing unwittingly into a poem about 9/11, but as always I have faith in the way art moves trauma through us. Trigger warning around September 11th, 2001 content. Much love. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit /episode/index/show/1e1f88ea-0344-406d-ae50-e77e1d016290/id/30392843

William Blake Bibliomancy Anyone? 10/02/2023

William Blake Bibliomancy Anyone? Have your heard of bibliomancy? My grandmother had. Well, I always knew books were magical, little time traveling capsules for consciousness, but some even think you can divine the future with them. How cool is that? Let's see what William Blake has to say of my future. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit /episode/index/show/1e1f88ea-0344-406d-ae50-e77e1d016290/id/30392853

Poem: Water and Whale Eyes 09/30/2023

Poem: Water and Whale Eyes Sometimes, a poet has to speak for the Whales. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit /episode/index/show/1e1f88ea-0344-406d-ae50-e77e1d016290/id/27956196

Existential Calmness 09/27/2023

Existential Calmness Being an artist whose mind is constantly saturated with existential thoughts is not always comfy or calm. But something has come over me. With all the projects I have waiting for my time and focus, as Mary Oliver says, they'll take the time they'll take. And so will my life. So, a calm has come over me. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit /episode/index/show/1e1f88ea-0344-406d-ae50-e77e1d016290/id/30209333

Monday Poem: Questioning What We Will 09/25/2023

Monday Poem: Questioning What We Will O, what a world of unseen visions and heard silences, this insubstantial country of the mind! What ineffable essences, these touchless rememberings and unshowable reveries! And the privacy of it all! A secret theater of speechless monologue and prevenient counsel, an invisible mansion of all moods, musings, and mysteries, an infinite resort of disappointments and discoveries. A whole kingdom where each of us reigns reclusively alone, questioning what we will, commanding what we can. - Julian Jaynes This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit /episode/index/show/1e1f88ea-0344-406d-ae50-e77e1d016290/id/30392863

Art and Warriorship 10/04/2023

Art and Warriorship Art has always been a path to wellness for human beings. From the beginning it was inextricable with the healing path. When we redefine (or remember is a more accurate word) what healing actually is for ourselves, our very wellness can create change -- not everyone likes change. So, in a way we become warriors for a new way. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit /episode/index/show/1e1f88ea-0344-406d-ae50-e77e1d016290/id/31090343

Monday Poem: When We Find Our Song 09/18/2023

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Sacred Again: AI and Art 09/15/2023

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All This Time I Was Healing 09/13/2023

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Monday Poem: Merits Gained & To Be Gained 09/11/2023

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Green is Gone 09/06/2023

Green is Gone I’ve been thinking about the color green. Only because it is missing, supposedly a very important color it seems, but somewhere along my way in the world it found itself gone. Invisible, missing. I am not color blind to it, I see it where it is. I see green everywhere it is. And I love it, in this strange way where I yearn to learn more about it. I could say, I love it almost the way I love blue, but silently instead. And blue I know, the color of my eyes, not like green, green is a mystery. Yet it has shown up and shown up in a quiet way all my life and now it is back to say: I still love you, you know. I still want peace for you my friend. It reminds me of convictions, of being radical somehow, radical by accident of inhabiting who I truly am. Green reminds me of the hope that the only boss you ever answer to is you, is what you love, and the earth somehow. If only the world would allow it. Green. Allow it to be the color of our hearts, our throats, the sound of our voices as the birds caw in the green leaves of the trees, we feel humbled by something that seems less beautiful — but it isn’t, you see. Our lives so precious, no matter how we spend them. In blue or green or gray. We’re here today to cultivate the way of things, the way of loving, the way of showing up. Pressing forward, some medicine, some tenderness, some forgiveness of the tense anxiety against death and disappearing of hate and domination. I walk, you walk, on hollowed ground. I sit, you sit, at the altar of our work desks. What do we put here today? The green of showing up, of conviction and never giving up. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit /episode/index/show/1e1f88ea-0344-406d-ae50-e77e1d016290/id/30392893

Poem: Sacred Well, Ancient Sea 09/05/2023

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Who You Are Speaking To 07/20/2023

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Red Threads 07/20/2023

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Abstractions 07/19/2023

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