A Facebook World: Pandora’s Box Reversed?

Hazel’s four month eyes are wide open staring up into the skirts of the tree above her, her hands tucked into her chest.   We’re lying on a sleeping pad I’ve spread atop a floor of pine needles, cedar fronds,and  decomposing leaves from last fall and beyond.  Cinnamon colored cedar twigs are scattered about like tree [...]

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Motherlove

How does it feel?  You know that fluttery feeling you get when you have feelings for someone special?  Well, similarly there is a physical sensation that accompanies motherlove, but it isn’t the fluttery sick feeling of that kind of love.  It’s more like the pressure of piano keys playing classical compositions in your center as [...]

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At It Again..

I’ll never forget my first acupuncture appointment.  My acupuncturist asked me to stick out my tongue and then she asked me if I had very vivid dreams.  “Yes, how can you tell that from my tongue?”  was my natural question.  Apparently, if you have a deep groove down the center of your tongue, you most [...]

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The Culmination of the First Chrysalsis Sisters Program

I have a distinct memory of learning in my high school English class about the ways in which ancient cultures would mark the significance of passing from childhood into adulthood through vision quests and other initiations.  The teacher spoke of how these youth were sent on a vision quest, a time of solitude in the [...]

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The Spring of Life

It has been several months since my last posting.  My excuse?  Well, way back in January I woke up on my birthday.  Jake rolled over and in sleepy slurs related a dream he had just had that he was caring around our baby daughter.  At that I scurried out of bed and went and peed [...]

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Chrysalis Sisters First Full Moon Walk

My heart is so full!  Sharing the full moon with the Chrysalis Sisters filled it right up to overflowing!  We walked through Whatcom Falls Park with the moonlight as our only light.  It didn’t take long for our eyes to adjust to the darkened forest.  It felt so appropriate to speak of the secrets and [...]

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Dictionary Lore

Try this: Pick up a dictionary. Ask a question. Close your eyes. Open the dictionary at random. Keeping your eyes closed, run your fingers up and down the page. When you feel that your finger has landed on the correct word, open your eyes and read. For example, I’m asking the dictionary right now, what [...]

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Good Vibes + Food + Placebo Effect = Rad Science(ish) Experiment

Think about a time when you were surrounded by good happy vibes.  Maybe you were enjoying a folked-out sing-a-long around a bonfire, or just laughing with some good friends.  Whatever the situation and for whatever reason, you were really feeling it.  Okay, now imagine that in the middle of this joy inducing experience, someone is [...]

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The Evolution of the Chrysalis Sisters

It is amazing how a vision can take on a life of its own.  When Ayuravedic practitioner, Laura Ann Smith, and director of Rooted Emerging, Vanessa Osage and I first got together to discuss the visions we held in our hearts to reach out to the young women who are coming of age we were [...]

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The Magical Mystery Tour

I am driving up the 101 as my husband snoozes in the seat next to me and our good friend (who owns the car I’m driving) reads a magazine in back.  As I cruise into the small, mysterious seaside town of Bandon, OR my heart is breaking a little.  I love this town, but we [...]

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