Wonder & Dust
exploring the connections between spiritual and creative practice
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….
Owl Woman
A barn owl is perched in a blooming hawthorn, a tree of great enchantment and powerful heart medicine. A new moon rises in the thinnest light of dawn. In the…
The Joining
From the night’s stormy heavens a bolt of lightning shatters the dark. Spiralling on the Earth, a great black snake absorbs the electricity and disperses it around her body in…
Medicine Women Tend to Grief
It’s Sunday and I have to slow down. It’s been go, go, go all week, despite the rain, and it will be go, go, go all next week too. And…
Feral Narratives
Trigger Warning: This post discusses suicide. You can listen to my reading of this post here: Once upon a summer moon, a doe stepped through the green shadows of the…
Sacrifice in the Bluets
Sacrifice in the Bluetspastel on board16 x 20″ Snakes were long ago considered to embody the energy of the Goddess, specifically life-fore energy, and were revered by the ancient Goddess-worshipping…
★ Of Wood Thrushes and Trilliums
The wood thrushes have returned, embroidering the morning soundscape with their wavering flutesong and soft rattles. Dusk is a concert of frog song. Breezes whisper through the velvet of new…