by Katy | Sep 17, 2020 | awakening, earth, Enneagram, mindfulness, practices, The Feminine
This blogpost was originally a sermon for a service I put together for Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship on August 16, 2020. You can watch the whole service and find the readings that accompany it. When Heidi (the musician I was working with) and I were...
by Katy | Mar 4, 2020 | earth, practices, relationship, seasons & cycles, The Feminine
I’ve been thinking a lot about the Life-Death-Life cycle recently. That’s how Clarissa Pinkola Estes names it in Women Who Run with the Wolves—this ever-regenerating, ever-cycling pattern that permeates the universe and all existence. It is the...
by Katy | Jan 28, 2020 | body, earth, Enneagram, mindfulness, personality, relationship, The Feminine
Image by by Larisa Koshkina on Pixabay “The purpose of life is not to transcend the body, but to embody the transcendent.” ~ The Dalai Lama That’s not what I tried to do most of my life! I tried to leave my imperfect-in-so-many-ways...
by Katy | Oct 24, 2019 | awakening, mindfulness, personality, poetry, seasons & cycles, self-care, song, The Feminine
Cutting Loose by William Stafford Sometimes, from sorrow, for no reason, you sing. For no reason, you accept the way of being lost, cutting loose from all else and electing a world where you go where you want to. Arbitrary, sound comes. A reminder that a steady center...
by Katy | Sep 30, 2019 | body, creativity, earth, practices, seasons & cycles, self-care, The Feminine
Autumn Equinox was last Monday, September 23rd at 12:50 am PT. This is the time when the dark and light hours are approximately even and marks the turning into more darkness as we head toward the Winter Solstice. Why mark this transition at all? In a...
by Katy | Jul 4, 2019 | awakening, body, earth, poetry, practices, relationship, seasons & cycles, self-care, The Feminine
From all quarters, life on this precious Eairth is desperately calling for the rising of the rooted Feminine—in both women and men. Eairth* and all her creatures are gasping for breath. We lose between 1 and 300 species every day (low to high estimates),...