Food For Thought
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🌿🍃 When the Tree Reveals an Empty Skin
Seeing Transformation Where I First Saw Death This morning, while taking Pepper outside, something unexpected caught my eye. The wind stirred the bark of one of our beautiful pecan trees, and I noticed what looked like hundreds of fuzzy caterpillars… Continue reading
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We Are Not Asked to Copy the Past 🌿
There comes a moment in every seeker’s life when a quiet question begins to rise… Can I honor where I come from without becoming a replica of it? Whether we’re exploring our ancestry, our faith, our culture, or the traditions… Continue reading
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🪽 When the Dragonfly Crossed My Threshold
The Sacred Ordinary 🌧️✨ Last night, while thunder rolled across the Midwestern sky and rain danced against the windows, something extraordinary happened. A tiny dragonfly flew into our home. 🪽 Not a large dragonfly gliding effortlessly over a pond, but… Continue reading
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The Sacredness of What Ends
May 29, 2026 There is a particular kind of wisdom that arrives when we stop trying to outrun impermanence. Not because we have conquered our fear of loss. Not because grief no longer touches us. But because we begin to… Continue reading
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When the Collective Psyche Colonizes the Nervous System
There comes a moment in many inner journeys when a person begins to realize something unsettling: Some of the thoughts, reactions, fears, compulsions, and bodily tensions they once assumed were “just who they are” may actually be inherited adaptations to… Continue reading
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The Bloom and the Seeing
On Painting Perception as a Living Organism There is a part of me that is no longer interested in painting things merely as they appear. Something in me wants to paint the feeling beneath perception itself — the living thread… Continue reading
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Othala and the Conscious Ancestor
Inheritance, Lineage, and the Courage to Choose What Continues There are moments when a symbol does not merely interest us — it recognizes us. I held the rune Othala in my hand, carved into warm wood like something remembered rather… Continue reading
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🌑 An Inner Passage of Remembering
There are stories we inherit…and then there are stories that begin to open from the inside. Good Friday and Easter have long been held as sacred events—anchored in history, taught through doctrine, carried through generations. But something shifts when they… Continue reading
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✨ You in Verse: The Universe Remembering Itself Through You
There are moments when language stops behaving like a tool…and starts behaving like a mirror. Not a mirror that reflects your face—but one that reflects your place within the pattern of everything. This is one of those moments. 🔮 The… Continue reading
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🌑 At the Water’s Edge: The Pisces New Moon Before the Fire of Aries
Every year, just before the astrological new year begins, the sky brings us to a shoreline. Not a dramatic one.Not a storm. But a quiet threshold — the place where water meets fire, where reflection gives way to emergence. This… Continue reading
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