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Water, Water Everywhere and Very Little Prayer

The struggle that I experienced moving through my health crisis 20 years ago, well that struggle pressurized my human experience to the extent that I reorganized, remembered and reestablished all my relationships. Not only my relationships with others in my life, but with myself, and with creation. I’m still refining this, too. Every day that … Continue reading →

Moundville, a 14th Century Pre-American City

I took my daughter to Moundville in Alabama this past week. What many Americans don’t realize is that Moundville (a series of 29 platform mounds built by the Missisippian Mound-builders about 1000 years ago) used to be something like the ‘New York City’ of North America. Moundville was the central hub for trade and activity … Continue reading →

Onion skin dyed Easter/Eostre Eggs

“Old English Eōstre continues into modern English as Easter and derives from Proto-Germanic *austrōn, itself a descendant of the Proto-Indo-European root *aus-, meaning ‘to shine’ (modern English east also derives from this root).[3] Writing in the 8th century, the Anglo-Saxon monk Bede describes Ēostre as the name of an Old English goddess and behind the … Continue reading →

School Hauntings & The Dreamtime

10 years ago I started having anxiety dreams. They would happen just once or twice a year, but they were always the same kind of dream. And, the residue from the dream would stay with me for days. I’m in a class, high school or college. I didn’t realize there was a pop quiz. Or, … Continue reading →

Trail Marker Trees: Remembering Land Language

The story of stumbling upon the meaning and significance of these living artifacts started about 10 years ago. I had been running an apothecary in Mississippi (2012-2017) and, of course, spent a lot of time outdoors walking trails. I eventually started to notice these unusually shaped trees, most of them bent at 90 degree angles. … Continue reading →

The Modern, Manufactured Woman

A rant?  A poem?  You chose. The modern manufacturing of the detached, disempowered feminine We try to suppress her cycles with birth control pills. We don’t give her space or support to breastfeed. We expect her to be back at work two weeks after birth. We don’t give her space to feel, grieve, express her … Continue reading →

Dear Madhupa Maypop, Thank you & Farewell

I finally got around to changing the name of my website. Many of you know about my site, Madhupa Maypop. There have been so many mispronunciations and question marks about this name, that it’s just high time to change it. And, it’s high time to step into my own name. It’s newness. It’s rightness. It’s … Continue reading →

Resources for Healing Whiteness

Ever since my health crisis back in 2001, in which I was plunged into my subconscious and the tattered subconscious of our culture (it was gruesome)…I have been walking the path of remembering…remembering what has been lost and what has been wounded…and what is begging us to be reclaimed… One of the main themes of … Continue reading →

5 Years Back in Mississippi

“Go out in the woods, go out. If you don’t go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.” ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run with the Wolves I’m feeling nostalgic about the 5 years I spent in Mississippi before moving back to California last year. I left … Continue reading →