The following is the afterword of a collaborative project that came into being in partnership with Connor L. Wolfe [L.M. Browning] and a host of brilliant writers who are committed to intentional living, sustainability, and moving slower through life. Do you ever find yourself walking slowly, meandering, sauntering with no lofty goal? There are so many … Continue reading Why to walk slowly
Lately I feel like I’m rushing around all the time, even while I’m sitting still staring at my computer screen, waiting for something to happen. Does that ever happen to you? You feel somehow frantic and extremely bored at the same time, eyes anxiously skittering across bite-sized half-stories that don’t really have any true impact … Continue reading Lessons from Lichen
This morning I was milling around the house, stewing about some problems that have popped up recently, when I decided to read Sulelika Jaouad’s latest Isolation Journals installment. It is about shifting expectations, and how allowing all sorts of outcomes to be okay, from lowering them to hoping for the best, can foster the ways … Continue reading The Look of True Wellness
I’ve been reading more and more of my writer friends and colleagues’ work via substack, one of the many newsletter services out there these days. It seems easy to use and allows me to promote the work of other writers, so I took the plunge a few weeks ago. I’ll probably be writing there more … Continue reading Ordinary Collisions
It’s been a long, cold spring. After what felt like a long, cold winter. (And I like winter!) I don’t know about you, but if you’re anything like me, life has felt really hard for quite some time now. It’s been a trying several months for many, in myriad ways…from burnout do to overwork to … Continue reading Healing through Hiking
12 Tiny Things: Simple Ways to Live a More Intentional Life, the book I co-authored with Ellie Roscher, has been out in the world for about eleven months now. It’s a strange and wonderful thing to see the words you’ve written take on a life of their own once they are out of your hands. … Continue reading Imperfect Practice [is still] the Way Forward
A lot happens over the course of single season during the life of a garden. By late autumn, the plants that produced all sorts of good things during the summer have become compost, the fields will soon be tilled under to mark the transition to fall, and the leaves on the aspen trees turn from … Continue reading Rest in Gratitude
“The door itselfmakes no promises.It is only a door”~Adrienne Rich Have you seen the movie Sliding Doors? I have to admit that I don’t really remember the plot very well, other than in tandem story lines, Gwyneth Paltrow’s character misses her train by seconds as the doors slide shut in one, and in the other she makes it and … Continue reading It’s Only A Door
is what John Lennon sang, and surely he’s not the only one. What do you dream of? How do you make music? What art finds a voice in your body? What do you muse over? What invites you to wander, and what invites you to be still? How do you let go of what the … Continue reading You may say I’m a dreamer
It’s been really overcast and, honestly, kind of dreary and flat-looking outside lately. The cloud cover has been thick and the air heavy with spring humidity after two days of constant rain. Mid morning I needed a break from work, so I headed to one of my favorite trails. Despite the uninspiring weather conditions, it … Continue reading The Scent of Wildness
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