by Katy | Jul 27, 2017 | food, poetry, seasons & cycles
something different: a little, rhyming summer poem for you! 🙂 Even though we rarely eat sweets, Dave’s 60th needed a treat. Something summery, simple, and celebratory to follow salmon, salad, memories, and stories. The family in the...
by Katy | May 25, 2017 | awakening, body, mindfulness, practices, ritual, seasons & cycles, self-care, The Feminine
I’ve been practicing bowing recently. When I was researching possible publishers for the book I’m working on, I stumbled upon a book called Bowing by Dahn Yoga Education. I was intrigued and ordered it. When it came, I devoured it in one sitting and started...
by Katy | Mar 17, 2017 | awakening, mindfulness, practices, ritual, seasons & cycles, self-care, The Feminine
Spring is coming, is calling, is COMING! Seeds, long held in the cozy dark, nutrient-rich soil, are beginning to push up through the darkness toward the light. Winter’s hold is not so tight. The light is growing, is coming, is calling—don’t go back to...
by Katy | Jan 31, 2017 | seasons & cycles, The Feminine
dark mother. with child. young, innocent, the black madonna greets me as i turn the corner from the room i will be teaching in on the way to the dining room. i stop. breathe her in. her presence a paradox, an invitation. to drop. to drop out of ordinary mind. to drop...
by Katy | Nov 30, 2016 | awakening, body, mindfulness, practices, seasons & cycles, self-care
do you feel it? that steady increase in tempo now that we’re in the holiday season? i sure do! we made it through black friday. and cyber monday. but now it’s countdown on shopping days before christmas. we have to find the right gifts for the...
by Katy | Sep 21, 2016 | awakening, mindfulness, ritual, seasons & cycles
Leaves are falling. Life is falling. Into the earth. Fall. Falling. Fallen. We are falling from one season into the other at Autumn Equinox, on Thursday, September 22nd, at 9:21 am CT, the day when the light and dark are equal in length. ...
