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...