Mindfulness
Worthy of our Welcome
A note from Erin: I hope you’re finding lots of sustaining beauty moments during these epically strange and stressful times. The world is agonizing and heartbreaking in so many ways these days. It’s also glorious and offering up its myriad gifts at the same time. In our yard, it’s that time of year when the…
Read MoreIs Your Real Work Loving the World?
A note from Erin, April 15 2023 Why do praise and gratitude matter? Both of these practices are a kind of soul activism and one I believe we and the world need. Gratitude is a way of seeing. I think of putting on Mary-Oliver-perspectacles as one doorway to this way of seeing – seeing with…
Read MoreImaginal Cell Goo & Courageous Love
A Note from Erin: For the past many months, I’ve been in what’s not exactly a midlife crisis, but a midlife deep cocooning. It’s invited a dissolution of much of who I’ve known myself to be. I’m practicing trusting this transformation into imaginal cell goo and the Soul’s knowing of what is next, while understanding it…
Read MoreShedding Skins & A Poem of the Year
A Note from Erin: Hello, brilliant human! Whether you’re inspired, brokenhearted, grateful, tired, disappointed, deeply enchanted, or some swirl of all of these and more – I am sending warm-hearted wishes your way. Your happiness is my happiness. Your suffering is mine too. I’m radiating care and reverence into all the nooks and crannies of our…
Read MoreA Certain Kind of Badass
A note from Erin: A few days ago I went for a meandering stroll in the canyon and after overnight rain, the golden hills were wafting the sweet incense of autumnal decay. I breathed it in deep. I saw tiny insects and luminous spider threads. I squatted down to watch a big slug cross the…
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