Posts by Erin
Grieving Well
Growing our capacity to grieve well is an essential skill for personal and communal well-being. Grieving well is vital for keeping our hearts open and tender in this very hard, very beautiful world. Grieving well is essential for staying permeable to beauty and resilient to despair. –Erin Geesaman Rabke Image item A note from Erin:…
Read MoreBeautiful in all the Holy Ways
“These lives of ours, they are not ultimately for us. They are for the Great Weaving. We are becoming ancestors even now. And the lands will remember our behavior. How we were within, and with all living things. You who share this earth with me, we are moving through a moment of revelation. We birth…
Read MoreSolstice Greetings & A New Podcast
“Today you get to be a flower. Your fragrance decides us. Choose well what pollen and nectar you send out into the tender breeze of our hopefulness. We need beauty now. ” – Jaiya John A note from Erin: Dear Beautiful Human, I’m sending warm solstice greetings your way. Here in the Northern Hemisphere, we’re…
Read MoreGratitude from Carl
Adrift Everything is beautiful and I am so sad. This is how the heart makes a duet of wonder and grief. The light spraying through the lace of the fern is as delicate as the fibers of memory forming their web around the knot in my throat. The breeze makes the birds move from branch…
Read MoreWhen Death Comes
A note from Erin 12/4/25 Dear beautiful human, I’m sending warm Full Moon greetings your way. My heart still marvels at the wonderful fact that wherever in the world you are reading this, we are under the same, luminous Full Moon. How magical. In the beautiful poem from Mary Oliver, When Death Comes, she writes:…
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