I just donated dog beds no longer needed by my friend’s dog who died. The beds are in good shape and ready to be slept on by living dogs. This is a normal happening, beings passing through using beds while here. I notice a lot of people have emotional support animals. The animals are calm… Continue reading Safety
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Crow habit
I have a crow habit. I know them: Crow, Crowie, and Croatia. There are more but I can’t remember their names. Some have asked me to paint them as they see themselves. It’s hard to describe but they don’t see themselves like we see them. They can be oversized black squares of energy that talk… Continue reading Crow habit
Green Island
This is where two rivers meet: McKenzie and Willamette. Sometimes I think we ask too much of nature. We go forest bathing and swimming in it; walking and running through it; drinking, huffing, and gobbling it down, all the time. It gives all that we need. How do we give back? I thought this while… Continue reading Green Island
2021 Pride
Today is the birthday of someone I used to love. She loved me too, she said a lot, almost daily. Until I told her I was gay. After that, she stopped talking to me. Well, once she spoke to me, cryptically, with sad eyes, and then walked away. That was in the late 1980s. I… Continue reading 2021 Pride
Birds in the marsh
As I told my cat, there were birds in the water, in the brush, in the trees, in the sky, on the ground. They were in all directions. And some were singing. That is all you need to know. But, if you want more, hitch alongside an Audubon group walk. This walk was here, the… Continue reading Birds in the marsh
Learning to have exchanges is worth it
The smell of whale burp
Yesterday evening, upon my return, a parade went through my neighborhood.Call: “Whose lives matter?” Response: “Black Lives Matter!” Call: “Get outta your homes, and into the street!” Repeat. I got outta my home and into the street to see what was going on. I didn’t know what the revolution would look like. I always thought… Continue reading The smell of whale burp
Animal vegetable church
I typed in the 3 required lines and 10 seconds later, I got an email: congratulations you are an ordained minister! And so it was. Verily, verily, I say unto thee, it has come to pass. So call me if you want to be wed, baptized, or laid to rest. It really is official in… Continue reading Animal vegetable church
Temple talks
What is a temple? A consecrated place. Consecrate is to make sacred or holy. Temporal means earth time, secular, not of heaven, a limited experience. Is it the place or the ritual that is holy? How do we discover sacredness? In more practical terms, a temple is also defined as a space for observation marked… Continue reading Temple talks
Floating
Today I needed reasons. I needed reasons to feel balanced. To balance on water, to be small on a big lake allows this to happen for me. The planet is old. It has wisdom, not through words but through presence. I just skitter around on it without listening most of the time. So I packed… Continue reading Floating