It’s hard to find reliable breakfast recipes that taste good, won’t upset my digestive system, and are easy to make during my morning ritual. A friend of mine turned me onto a variation of this cobbler recipe years ago. The ease and simplicity of the recipe, allowing the fruit flavors to shine through, really stuck … Continue reading
Rebirth
“When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an inspiratrice, an intuitive, a maker, a creator, an inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer world…” ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes REBIRTH … Continue reading
Humans, Wildness, and the Web of Life
“If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on what is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks.” ~ Egyptian king Thamus in Plato’s Phaedrus This morning in meditation, like many mornings that I … Continue reading
One Nation Under Trauma
“The simple truth is that every single civilization, including the western world, was brought into being from a sacred place to serve a sacred purpose. And when that purpose is forgotten, when its original alignment gets lost, when the fundamental balance and harmony of its existence become disrupted beyond a certain point, then nature has … Continue reading
Ginger-garlic Sauerkraut
Somehow, I have not posted my ginger-garlic sauerkraut recipe yet on my blog. And, with spring cabbages beginning to roll in, I decided to whip up a batch…while listening to Sade. I think that Sade makes the lactobacilii happy (smile)…especially Smooth Operator. So, I really wish I would have been a foodie, plant-lover, and fermenter … Continue reading
Understanding the Chakra Energy System
I’ve been exploring the chakra energy system for years. Although I’ve been learning about it mostly through the system of yoga, I realize that there are many other names for this energy system. From indigenous healers to Tibetan Buddhists, these energy centers are universal when it comes to understanding the body and the energy body. … Continue reading
Porn Kills Love
In our culture, where pornography wields a mighty $13 billion each year (and climbing), none of us are separate from the impact it is having on sexuality and intimacy. Is it surprising that the largest consumer of internet porn are male tweens, commonly seeing their first hard porn on the internet by the ripe age … Continue reading
Mississippi Clear-cut, Take 1
Clear-cut in Mississippi, Take 1 It still happens. If I leave home and go anywhere, I see this. And, they say it’s gotten worse. These clear-cuts, if they could talk, would shape slack-jawed syllables…and circle like vultures over our heads. And who is HE that takes so much and leaves so little behind? I want … Continue reading
Gratitude and Reflections
2014 Reflections ~ Madhupa Maypop What a journey it has been this year! This past year has been about revealing, revealing, and then more revealing. Some of my most personal and intimate information (via my blog post “I Was Born to Do This”) was unearthed this year and it’s just the beginning. I do hope … Continue reading
More than ever…
More than ever… More than ever we need art. More than ever we need imagination. Not fantasy. No, not that. We need IMAGINATION. We need to take real pain, real suffering, and real injustice and transform it (with art)…into something meaningful and empowering. More than ever… We must call on our gifts… to dream, envision, … Continue reading
Lindsay Kolasa 