being sold to us earlier and earlier Halloween is the new Thanksgiving Literally the day after Halloween stores started putting Christmas decorations out here in Portland. Actually, it may have been earlier in some places. It used to be when I was growing up that Thanksgiving was an entirely separate holiday to Christmas. Then, for […]

Today is Thanksgiving . . . All the important talk about how wrong the Thanksgiving story is on my mind. Here is a great recent article by Lyla June Johnston about it. It’s important to take a look squarely at the truth. That we live in a contextual imaginary . . . that so much of […]

No one owns medicine. Medicine owns us. It has rules of engagement – like the female body is an original instruction. Plants are relatives not resources. Plants cannot be catalogued (as the anthropologist has so often done). They are adaptive. Their effect changes with us and we change with them, as we connect as relatives. […]

Many of you are mothers and know it. Other’s of you might be feeling like, dang, is all this stuff here for me? I want to clear things up a little right now: Yes, I am creating this community for mamas. Mothers are a priority. And by mothers I mean: precious new mamas (with intimate […]

I devote so much of my life to understanding how to restore myself and my connection to my cultures – since I was first sat down by my elders and given my obligations (and lifetime puzzles lol). I hold them in my core. always. Obligations are not to be shared, but lived. One of my elders […]

My biggest question . . . . . .when entering doctoral study in depth psychology was: how do I offer healing without alienating people who, like me, resist being labelled as damaged? You see, at first when I considered the possibility that trauma was at root of my pain and dysfunction I was relieved. It […]

Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands. ~ Linda Hogan We all have ancestors — we are all descendants. When your grandmother dies, she becomes your ancestor. Each of us could/should […]

I was just explaining to my husband why I don’t want a black car. Especially not one with tinted windows. You see, we are looking for a used car right now as poor jeep-y is on her last legs. He keeps finding perfectly good vehicles and I keep veto-ing them. We finally sat down and […]