Weaving Past & Present with the Ancients There a several aspects of the work I do. One I hold most dear is what I call ‘the weaving’. The...

“Go now, and wander For the welfare of many, out of compassion For the world.” ~Gautama Buddha Sometimes I’m given street signs or maps...

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“In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the...

rho ophiuchi from nasa Starlight and mud dust sprinkle from the hearted hands Bringing blessings of the Known to the unknowing Rising...

Barbara Mor I white woman enter the councils of the rock she is dressed in the skin of her people to the elders of the rock she speaks  ...

Lesson one The desert is powerless when thunder shakes the hot air and unfamiliar raindrops slide on rocks, sand, mesquite, when...

God at the Kitchen Sink Are you First Nations? Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no...

“When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need...

Define me, shrink me: you starve your self of Self. Keep me nailed in a box of unyielding words, That box becomes your coffin. I do not...

Each individual finds himself within himself. Then he finds himself within his surroundings: His friends, community and people. The...

When the ground speaks whispering deepest of sorrows Seeking release of the wounds long held for others Seeped into soil, morphed into...

light keeps on breaking. i keep knowing the language of other nations. i keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they...

by Joy Harjo a woman can’t survive by her breath alone she must know the voices of the mountains she must recognize the foreverness of...

There is deep love a sticky-thick thing that’s been waiting for you to open into it. It asks nothing, requires nothing and promises...

Today, for hours, I’ve sung Kaddish with millions. They appeared during a conversation with a friend’s great-grandfather this morning and...

the angels were certain powers of that form which the folk call the great human the angels were to it Like the spiritual and perceptual...

Walking with the Sioux, Part I As far as I know, my journey with First Nations peoples began when Chief Running Rabbit, a Siksika...

“I have loved in life and I have been loved. I have drunk the bowl of poison from the hands of love as nectar, and have been raised...

Dispatches from the Drivers Seat Earlier, I shared an experience of my relationship with the elements and etheric that  developed as I...