Closer to Mine

    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.

    Allowing Autumn

    Allowing Autumn

    When we cheerlead the ecosystem as it does its thing, we’re more intentionally part of it, IT can be bigger. It can be more enlivened with all who participate. In this way, human-persons play a role in seasonal change.

    Nineteen Years

    Nineteen Years

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cv0J0Lhg1Ex/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Nineteen Years Much the way new parents refer to their babies’ (I have twins; always plural 😉 age as “twelve weeks” or “twenty-four...
    Compassionate Depossession

    Compassionate Depossession

    Compassionate Depossession An aspect of deathwalking is depossession, which isn’t just the removal of a life force from a place that it is no longer functional (or was never functional), but seeing that it is returned to the place that it can be tended and...
    You Are Where

    You Are Where

    https://www.instagram.com/p/Cu9EQktr8wj/?igshid=MmU2YjMzNjRlOQ== You Are Where Not a question. A statement. A fact of being. I’ve always loved the Rumi quote, “Wherever you are, be the soul of that place,” though I think I hear it differently than...
    35 Years an Ancestor

    35 Years an Ancestor

    35 years The summer that I was 17 my great aunt, whom I was very close to, died. In an anthology chapter I wrote years ago, I described her as, “the cook, the hostess, the comforter, and the keeper of all the mysterious secrets for how to do just about...