a glimpse of my authentic life
Solstice
It is the twentieth of June 2025. The summer solstice in northern Colorado, where I now live, began tonight at 8:42. For the last hour, I’ve been participating in an online meditation/celebration that just completed. The energy is extraordinary in this pivotal year of unprecedented change…
The world is becoming curiouser and curiouser, and I’ve been exploring the most expansive ways to stay above the fray. That’s what I call being in observer mode, holding the larger vision for myself and for humanity. If I feel my solar plexus beginning to spin, I know I’m getting stuck in the mire…
Last Saturday was the final monthly seminar with my Wisdom Healing Qigong teacher, Master Mingtong Gu, for the Living Tao mentorship program I’ve been involved in during the past year. The theme Mingtong presented at our meeting was “self-love as a path to freedom.”
Although I may not relish the thought of being submerged in water, I love being around water, and it somehow seemed in sync with my life theme that week that Mingtong chose Chapter 8 of the Tao Te Ching to present that Saturday. As he had been doing, he offered his own literal and intuitive…
A couple of months ago, on the phone with a dear writerfriend, somehow a poem that I had written in 1998 came up in the conversation. It’s called The Lady of the Lake. I had brought it to the very first writers workshop I attended, which is where I met this sister-of-the-heart. Even though at the time I didn’t consider myself a poet—I was workshopping my novel…