Marginalia

Essays. Blog. Blurbs. Everything in the edges.

Too many irons, not enough fire.

Essays and reflections written into relationship with Body, the Ancestors, dreams, death, belonging.

As an Animist, What Happens to Your Relationships…

... When You Die? I've studied many spiritual traditions. In fact, that's probably all I would do all day every day if I didn't need a paycheck and healthcare. It's always been a passion. Even more...

What Happens to Your Spiritual Practice

Do you have trustworthy, safe people to tend your spiritual practice after you die?

You Don’t Have to Be a Professional…

Everyone thinks that spiritual practice preparedness is for people who have clients, but it’s also for those who don’t work with others.

Thanks Given

This Autumnal Equinox, remember that every mouthful of every meal is Earth feeding Earth, and for that we give thanks.

Fit

As challenging as my daily experience was before COVID, it was a cakewalk compared to what it is now.

Deathwalking – No Loose Ends

Eldering well is departing well.

Soothsaying

Ansuz – what we say becomes, and that is exactly what I want to remember in everything I put forward, even through my digital ecosystem.

Nature Doesn’t Heal Us

I don’t experience that Nature heals us. I don’t even experience that the living world regards us (or any being) as unwell. Healing and illness are human-person ways of organizing experience. Oaks don’t divide the forest into the healed and the unhealed.

Closer to Mine

My hope is that this relationship with Soul Intent Arts feels less like a collection of pages and more like a place you can return to. I want it to be a place where you can pause, find your bearings, and discover the next step in your own relationship with the living world.