Undersong
Beneath the known
The ones that re-wired synapses.
And I couldn’t go back the same.
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.
Healing Isn’t the Goal
Somewhere along the way, many of us were taught that the purpose of life is to become a version of ourselves untouched by grief, free from wounds, no longer shaped by loss.
Belonging is Generational Wealth
When a culture protects belonging, it passes down more than traditions or possessions.
Soul Tending Is Re-membering
Re-membering is the continual restoration of relationship among what has been cleaved from our being, it is the heart of soul tending.
Safety is the First Altar
Safety is the ground from which every sacred thing grows.
Trauma Is Broken Relationship Before It Is Broken Biology
Healing can never be only an individual project. Communities matter. Accountability matters. Protected children matter. Healthy elders matter.
Body Keeps the Lore
Lore isn’t what happened. It isn’t static, pinned in place as a final tally. Neither is body.
Relationship Is the Original Medicine
If body keeps the lore, then relationship is how lore changes. I’ve said for decades now, healing doesn’t happen in isolation. It happens in relationship.
Dreams Are Conversations, Not Puzzles
Most dream teachers ask, "What does this symbol mean?"I ask, Why is this dream choosing this relationship, in this moment of your life? I'm a lifelong lucid dreamer, and because of that, dreams have...
Body Remembers the Commons
All living within the enclosure are shaped by the same rupture. Body remembers before colonization.
Independence is a Modern Myth
As I wrote in Gift of the Dreamtime, we don’t heal in isolation, but in community. And of course, community isn’t limited to other human-persons…