When I was growing up as a girl on our Virginia farm, my father was always testing me to see if I remembered the names for different types of trees and birds. He took immense pleasure in watching the birds flock in the feeders outside the kitchen window, studying them in his piles of [...]
Rudolph Steiner was noted as saying that "plants can only be understood when considered in connection with all that is circling, weaving and living around them." Steiner also explained that the birds are vital to the health of plants. The healthy growth of plants to flower and fruit is virtually stunted without the wing beats [...]
A friend of mine, who knows how passionate I am about growing food, recently sent me some wonderful green news about a Walipini underground greenhouse. Walipini is an Aymara Indian word which means "place of warmth." This greenhouse in the ground, a warm place, is constructed six to eight feet within the earth utilizing both [...]
The human experience connects all of us together through our shared understandings of what it means to have a physical, mental and emotional body. Each one of us is the expression of the sum total of our physical, mental and emotional experiences in life; the total which ultimately defines our heart response and our [...]
I have an art studio called Studio Bliss which I named in 1992 while living in my native home of Virginia. Over the years most people have tended to associate the bliss part of the name with the spiritual connotation, but in fact, the reason for this name did not originate there. I was [...]
Human beings are so delicately woven to nature that in essence we could say nature is us, and we are nature. As our awareness of this fine thread linking us to nature grows and expands, we can begin to comprehend the ever deeper levels of our union with every aspect of our natural environment. Our [...]
There is an Intuit legend that tells the story of a Skeleton Woman. It is beautifully told by Clarissa Pinkola Estes in her book, Women Who Run With The Wolves. The story goes like this: A woman had been thrown into the sea by her angry, disapproving father, and in time became a skeleton [...]
For hundreds of years, man has sought to understand and explain himself and his world. While science has focused on the exterior evolution of seen evidence, spirituality has focused on the interior involution of unseen evidence. These different approaches have resulted in a polarized existence for mankind defined by separation. Either one believes in the [...]
