Tag Archives: ecospirituality

Death–the Final Frontier?

Posted on December 16, 2018 by Susan

This winter, I decided to trim back even less of my garden when all the plants began their annual march from lush abundance, to spent sticks. As the palette in my yard shifted from greens to splashes of gold and … Continue reading →

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CULTIVATING WONDER

Posted on February 3, 2017 by Susan

After a full night of freezing rain, MillHaven is coated once again in clear, glistening glass. The ducks, Bella and Lucy, hid in their coop yesterday afternoon and I had to push them out to add more fresh straw just … Continue reading →

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ON BLOSSOM O’POSSUM, AND EXISTENTIAL DREAD

Posted on August 1, 2016 by Susan

Last evening I sat nestled in the grass in the peach hues of the late-summer gloaming. Clippers in hand, I sat sifting dried stalks of phacelia through my fingers, breaking their seed heads into a paper bag. Across the yard … Continue reading →

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CALLING ALL KINDRED SPIRITS!

Posted on July 25, 2016 by Susan

The morning of the “original” 9/11, I was scurrying about fixing a snack platter and drinks for the beginning of our very first Kindred Spirit Retreat in Jackson, Wyoming. At the time, I was a woman without a phone or … Continue reading →

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BEE-SOTTED SPRING

Posted on March 24, 2016 by Susan

My back lawn is very sad. Most of its lovely green face is beneath mud now, and in other places the grass is drowned beneath rain puddles. This has been a very wet season, a record-rain season I’m told. Carter … Continue reading →

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SOMETHING IN MOTION

Posted on May 25, 2014 by Susan

I have been pondering this post for some time now. I always feel a great hesitancy when writing of sacred things, as I can become overwhelmed with a sense of inadequacy when trying to put the holy into words. But … Continue reading →

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AUTUMN MUSINGS: CELEBRATION AND REGRET

Posted on September 22, 2013 by Susan

The autumnal equinox rains her power down on me today, as I sit musing about all the things that I have and have not been this past summer season. Autumn is a time of celebrating our successes as well as our … Continue reading →

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COYOTE WOODS: LIFE AT THE EDGE

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Susan

Permaculturists—folks who believe in permanent, sustainable cultures from the soil on up—speak often and with passion about edges. The edges of a space are where the action happens, they teach, where the most possibility exists, and where life experiments with … Continue reading →

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ENTICED—AND GLAD OF IT

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Susan

Spring is rolling out previews this month. Like a captivating trailer from a lushly orchestrated block-buster movie, Spring is previewing herself here in the northwest in gorgeous snapshots of tiny color, and in the softest breath of warm air on … Continue reading →

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FUNGI AMONG THEE

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Susan

The rain came down shockingly hard, flung by someone up high who must have been really angry. The skies overhead were a dense soft-colored silver, but lurking at the fringes of the yard, coal-colored clouds were advancing fast. Mazel Tov … Continue reading →

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