nature
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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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🪽 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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Returning to the Field of Wonder 🌿✨
There was a time in my life when the world was not yet divided into categories of useful and useless, important and trivial, sacred and ordinary. There was simply experience. A breeze across the skin. A bug crawling across a… Continue reading
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🌾 The Field Beyond Right and Wrong
Meeting One Another in the Ground of Being “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” Those words, spoken by the Sufi mystic Jalāl ad-Dīn Rūmī, have echoed through centuries because they point… Continue reading
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She returns in whispers.
Spring does not arrive with trumpets. Before the roses stretch, before the fruit trees dare their blossoms, the small ones rise first — the quiet keepers of the threshold. They come not in spectacle but in persistence, lifting their green… Continue reading
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🌌When Ash Looks Like a Nebula
On false color, death, and the human need to see what cannot be seen 🌌🕯️ There is a moment—often in grief, often in wonder—when the mind stops categorizing and simply recognizes. Someone notices that cremated remains under a microscope can… Continue reading
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🌿 Smoke, Science, and Sacred Responsibility
Rethinking Smudging in an Ethical, Earth-Honoring Way For many of us, smoke has always felt like a threshold—a visible prayer, a breath made tangible, a way of clearing not just a room, but a field. Smudging, most commonly associated with… Continue reading
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Luna Moth Wisdom: Lessons from Nature’s Metamorphosis
When the Wings begin to Open: A Devotional Reflection on Metamorphosis It happened slowly, almost imperceptibly at first. She was already there when I arrived—pressed against the mossy stone like an unfinished thought. Her wings, still furled, hung damp and… Continue reading
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The Power of Shadow Blooming: A Journey to Self-Integration
This is for those of us who didn’t wither in the dark—We rooted deeper.We didn’t turn from the rot. We composted it.And somewhere beneath the layers of ache,We bloomed. Not in spite of the shadow—but through it.Not as a performance… Continue reading
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Turtle Wisdom: Lessons from a Southward Journey
🐢 When the Turtle Headed South: A Soul-Sighting at 1:11 As soon as I realized what I was seeing, I scrambled like a barefoot oracle on a mission, tripping over my own awe as I lunged for my phone. You’d… Continue reading
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