Winter is a time of depth diving, of burrowing in to rest and restore oneself. It is a season when I am often alone, isolated by the weather and the scarcity of sun light, but I am never really...
http://dandelionseedsanddreams.blogspot.com/2018/02/postcards-from-prairie.html
I promise to be brief ... especially as I seem to dwell in a realm below the surface of words and thinky thoughts these past few months years. There is so much chatter out there, I find my...
http://dandelionseedsanddreams.blogspot.com/2018/01/for-horses-heartfull-living-self-care.html
I love how inspiration will find its way in when I least expect it. I marvel at how I can be wiped out, dried out, seemingly emptied out and then (when my guard is down or more accurately when I ...
http://dandelionseedsanddreams.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-things-that-make-up-life.html
"We are matter, kindred with ocean and tree and sky. We are flesh and blood and bone. To sink into that is a relief, a homecoming." (Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery ...
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Practice ... it is what I return to again and again. As I age, I find myself gathering more and more practices around me - meditation, yoga, art making, prayers, writing. What is obvious to m...
http://dandelionseedsanddreams.blogspot.com/2017/10/practice-me-practice-you.html
It seems my life consists of many practices. Or more accurately: living an engaged life IS a practice that encompasses many threads weaving together into a rich, colorful and abstract pattern t...
http://dandelionseedsanddreams.blogspot.com/2017/08/my-nature-journal-practice.html
The first half of this year, I had been grappling with the concept of Simplicity and how to translate it into every day living. A challenge for me as my natural tendency is to spin towards comp...
http://dandelionseedsanddreams.blogspot.com/2017/07/essentials.html
Truly, honestly, hopefully ... I'm bahhhhh ...ck! I won't lie, it has been a bitch of a season ... or two, or three. I was probably (read: absolutely!) in denial of the depths of my funky...
http://dandelionseedsanddreams.blogspot.com/2017/06/hello-hello-its-me-again.html
Oh my ... hello there ... didn't you see me oozing along the muddy path by your feet? No? Well, I have missed you! I didn't mean to vanish. I mean, I have been here and very much present i...
http://dandelionseedsanddreams.blogspot.com/2017/05/slipping-back-in.html
Can you feel it? Spring IS coming! I can see tender green shoots shaking off the sleep of winter and pushing up through moist soil towards warm, sunny skies. I too find myself slipping outdoors, ...
http://dandelionseedsanddreams.blogspot.com/2017/03/for-of-horses.html
I recently shared this image on my Instagram feed along with a section of lyrics from a Wah! song (Ma Chant/Kali): If you look for anything in this world, find things that draw you into the gre...
http://dandelionseedsanddreams.blogspot.com/2017/02/aligning-with-light-and-heartfull.html
Simplicity is my intention for 2017 ... along with Devotion (ah, yielding to the Gemini rising in my natal chart ... gotta have two intentions!) I excel at overthinking, over complicating matte...
http://dandelionseedsanddreams.blogspot.com/2017/01/simplicity.html
Even though I know the short days of December will be hard, I am always caught off guard. I must want to forget how deeply the low amounts of sun light affect me. Yet the darkness of December whi...
http://dandelionseedsanddreams.blogspot.com/2016/12/darkness-healing.html
But mostly I just stand in the dark field, in the middle of the world, breathing in and out. Life so far doesn't have any other name but breath and light, wind and rain. If there's a...
http://dandelionseedsanddreams.blogspot.com/2016/11/standing-still.html
'Tis the season ... This past weekend it was time to winterize the garden (even though it still feels like late summer here) and I find myself marveling at another year under the belt (or on...
http://dandelionseedsanddreams.blogspot.com/2016/11/spiraling-inward.html
or me, philosophically, stress is a perverted relationship to time. So that rather than being a subject of your own time, you have become its target and victim, and time has become routine. So a...
http://dandelionseedsanddreams.blogspot.com/2016/10/lessons-on-fishing-and-time.html
I was walking Moose dog this morning when I realized, it had been 48 hours since I had last left the house. And even that excursion (into town for Chinese class with Cowgirl) was the only trip i...
http://dandelionseedsanddreams.blogspot.com/2016/09/filled-up.html
Apparently while I am distractedly exploring my rabbit hole, the real rabbits are taking advantage of the salad bar I've conveniently potted and maintained for our mutual enjoyment. I pa...
http://dandelionseedsanddreams.blogspot.com/2016/09/down-rabbit-hole.html
This first full week back to school has had a topsy turvy kind of vibe to it. Trying to find a rhythm with this new schedule along with mandatory wake-up time (no snooze button for me - that is...
http://dandelionseedsanddreams.blogspot.com/2016/08/just-love.html
While the calendar says otherwise, today marks the end of our summer. the thermometer also indicates summer still has us - and this poor bunny! - in her fiery grasp! Today Cowgirl had a ha...
http://dandelionseedsanddreams.blogspot.com/2016/08/turning-towards-simplicity.html
Summer is hard for me. I feel heat and humidity more intensely than the cold and it may sound perverse, but too much sunshine makes me grumpy. But summer has been bringing me some lovely...
http://dandelionseedsanddreams.blogspot.com/2016/08/august-memories.html
Before you speak consider: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it an improvement over silence? - Swami Kripalu I am not a quiet person and rarely am I silent. But these past few months I have fou...
http://dandelionseedsanddreams.blogspot.com/2016/07/lessons-in-abstraction.html
I woke this morning to a gentle rain. For the past six hours, it has continued with the rain gauge reading 2 inches so far. It is unusual here to have a steady, rhythmic rainfall. Normally, r...
http://dandelionseedsanddreams.blogspot.com/2016/07/may-our-minds-and-hearts-be-one.html
This may well be my new mantra. Mind the gap ... Originally it was a bit of a laugh between my mother and myself. Our first trip to London -- yikes! -- 37 years ago? We were standing on the s...
http://dandelionseedsanddreams.blogspot.com/2016/06/mind-gap.html
I find it curious that as I deepen new practices, others seem by necessity to languish. Writing being one of them! I have been feeling deep shifts - tectonic plates within my heart and soul - b...
http://dandelionseedsanddreams.blogspot.com/2016/06/with-gratitude.html