WINTER SOLSTICE 2024

Wow, here we are another year down the road! The wood (ironwood, Japanese cedar, eucalyptus, kiawe) for this year’s Winter Solstice fire has been split and stacked and smudged. The patient tunka sit quietly in their stoic prayer robes. We will be sparking grandfather...
REMEMBERING BUSHI

REMEMBERING BUSHI

She was probably less than a month old and weighed not even a pound when she first “appeared” in my life. A passerby had heard her mewing desperately from the crawl space beneath the local shelter for battered and abused women, “Women Helping Women”. She was all...

ON FAMILIARS

Having been raised by strict Catholics, I was exposed to a plethora of fantastical stories. Upon first hearing them, I believed each one of them wholeheartedly albeit somewhat wide-eyed. Some, like the existence of guardian angels, made a lot of sense to me. Others,...

HANA HOU

  Each time you allow the universe to expand through you, it is a living prayer. My Dakota hunka showed me by her example that the truest prayer is how you live this one precious life that has been entrusted to you. Do you selfishly squander it or do you “walk in...

WALK IN BEAUTY

  I have lived for so long in the midst of so much stunning natural beauty that it has, astonishingly, come inside me and taken up residence. It had entered me without me fully knowing it. But I see now how it defines my inner landscape with its gentle contours,...