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Honoring the Dark–Winter Solstice 2020
We live in a culture of polarities that encourages us to construct polarities in our lives: good vs. bad, what I like vs. what I dislike, warm vs. cold, comfortable vs. uncomfortable, relaxation vs. work, etc. One polarity that arises this time of year is...
The Call of Autumn Equinox
Autumn Equinox occurs on Tuesday, September 22nd at 6:30 am Pacific Time this year. While Solstices give us an experience of full-on light or dark, Equinoxes invite us into a threshold of changing light. Because of this, there is an uncertainty, a not knowing...
Walk in Beauty
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...
Summer Solstice 2020: Letting Go into Light
It's Summer! We are celebrating more light, more warmth, and more time outside (for those of us with Covid restrictions lifting). But really, the Summer Solstice (June 20, 2:43 pm PT) represents not only a time of peak light, but the beginning of the turn...
Fires at Beltaine
Today, May 1st, Beltaine or Beltane, is a cross-quarter day that marks the approximate halfway point between Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice. It is a time of celebrating the growing light. Tradition has it that great bonfires were lit on hills to bring the...
life-death-life
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...
Embodying the Transcendent
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 body to find a...
Habitual or Ritual?
It’s the New Year, and with the turning of the year, comes an invitation to create some new healthy habits! Putting habits in place means not having to think so hard—we can just do the things we need to do on autopilot. Perhaps you want to jump out of bed and...
Winter Solstice 2019–emerging into light
Winter Solstice occurs this year on Saturday, December 21st, 2019 at 8:19 pm Pacific Time. This is one of the most celebrated turnings of the year in the Northern Hemisphere as it indicates the beginning of the return of the light as Eairth begins to...
Breathing in the Morning
Breathing in, I know that I am breathing in. Breathing out, I know that I am breathing out. I’ve been practicing with one of Thich Nhat Hanh’s breathing gathas* every morning lately. It feels good to have a quiet morning practice that is about connecting with...
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