Monthly Archives: October 2024

Deep Listening Is Like A Question

Have you ever had moments when you realized that the question you were asking was the wrong one? Not that it was totally unreasonable, or out of context, but that it was just not focused enough? It didn’t take you were … Continue reading

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I Am Fat

Growing up, I remember the label on my pants: “husky.” That’s what society had decided I was, as if that single word could sum up my entire existence. I’ve never been skinny, and I grew up hearing comments about my … Continue reading

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Listening to the Wake Up Calls

It is early October, and I went out into the woods early one morning. At first, all I heard was the noise of my own mind jumping from one thing to another.  Soon, something seemed to be asking to be … Continue reading

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Ode to Mycelia

O mycelia, webbed beneath our feet,  Silent architects of life’s retreat,  In the quiet soil, you weave and wind,  Threads of connection, ancient and kind.  Through shadowed earth, you reach and spread,  Binding the living, nourishing the dead.  A whispered song beneath the trees,  A symphony of … Continue reading

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Do You Hear What I Hear?

One of the things about having animals is that they react to things we don’t hear, see, feel, or notice. Often we are interrupted from some day to day activity because one of the dogs starts barking at… well.. Nothing … Continue reading

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Elemental Listening

In many mystical traditions, it is commonplace to attach significant meaning to what are known as the four elements: air, fire, water and earth. Each of the four hold literal, metaphorical  and personal meanings. Air is exactly that invisible atmospheric … Continue reading

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Layers of Listening

We grow up in circumstances where parents, teachers, coaches and other adults demand that we listen to them as they speak words to us.  That can be important, and, if we are honest, that becomes something that we lose interest … Continue reading

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