Wonder & Dust
exploring the connections between spiritual and creative practice
The Age of Repair Is Beginning
We can deepen our experience of consciousness and allow the living world to speak to us in ways our bodies know how to listen. Dear Reader, I am very focused…
The Blue Basket
Let me know my smallness. Not an isolated smallness, not an insignificant smallness, but the smallness of a thread in a great and intricate tapestry, the smallness of one spider in…
Dreaming Animals: the Mission
The first story was a dream. The first storyteller, the Dream-maker. Long before words. Long, long, long before complex language, or tools, our deepest ancestors were dreaming. The proof is…
The Fox’s Gift
It is early December, and you are walking through the forest. Snow falls, filtering the thin dying light of midwinter. It has a raw beauty that leaves you unsettled, as if…
The Holy Grail of My Practice
Back in February two things came onto my agenda–a massive studio clean-out and a total renovation of my website. I got a little help with the heavy lifting of cleaning,…
Creativity as Relationship
There are different kinds of creative practice. There is the technical practice of one’s craft—the time spent becoming more and more proficient, building skill and developing mastery. This is important…
Creativity as a Spiritual Path
In a world that is largely under the thumb of huge religious institutions, it might be easy to lose sight of the fact that for eons, since humanity’s very beginnings,…
Rattlesnake Breaks Open the Basket of Light
A rattlesnake weaves around and breaks open an otherwise one-dimensional sun-like form, creating depth and color. Playing with loops and ribbons in my sketchbook, I had a vision of this…
Love Letter to a May Night
/ A Full Moon shines through a forest creating a dance of color and light. Blue ghost fireflies waver on the forest floor. In May the blue ghost fireflies emerge….