The mood surrounding the coming election is reminding me how it felt to anticipate major surgery. It was this time of year, eleven years ago that, team of top surgeons from the Mayo Clinic would be removing a tumor that surrounded nerves and arteries at the base of my neck. Read more…
Almost every Sunday morning my daughter groans and asks us, again, “Why are we going to church?” Sometimes we skip church and attend an indigenous-led water ceremony by the Mississippi. Then the question is “Why do we have to go to the river?” My daughter is questioning like kids do, Read more…
Healing. Wisdom. Depth. Simplicity. Presence. Trust. These are the words that emerged most frequently in my work over this part year. They do a good job describing what happens in the communities that practice qigong and dance with me. I had fun putting together a collection of pictures to tell Read more…
“Who is the next walker? We need someone right now!” I was on the Cannon River Water Walk last week, and there was a group of water walkers coming towards us carrying the vessel of water we had gathered at the headwaters. The water is not supposed to stop moving Read more…
Here’s to the moment when something you practice becomes
something you live effortlessly. Here’s to all of us who are practicing in many different ways the foundations for a future in which all life flourishes. May we all experience the joy of that vision becoming a reality.
I propose that we dance not simply to celebrate the meteorological arrival of spring. I believe that dancing is also part of helping spring happen.
Joy and community are powerful ways to strengthen any aspect of our lives. They can support not just the greening of spring, but also visionary projects like the Green New Deal.
The swirl of life continues! I’m of course always hoping for the day when things are quiet and I can catch up and take care of things like backing up my computer. But the truth is that we are living in times of escalating crisis. Even without the ongoing political Read more…
I took my daughter to hear Taylor Swift the other week. The biggest surprise from the experience (other than the mere fact of me going) was how good I felt the next day. While parts of the whole experience felt so foreign to me, in the joyful after glow I Read more…
My father is visiting and one of the great benefits is that he fixes things for me. He has glued the bench, hammered the loose shingle, and applied WD-40 to the sticky lock. I get a little thrill out of things being fixed up. It is so satisfying when a Read more…
“Fashion is more powerful than love.” This was how my daughter tried to provoke a silly argument with me. At her suggestion we’d been drawing pictures of ourselves in armor. I’d rebelled against the prompt in my own way, depicting myself with pens in my pocket, a book and phone Read more…