A Life of Practice

04/01/2024

My dear friend and herbal colleague Lisa Scott has hard-earned wisdom and lots of practical advice for women experiencing the scalding pain and too-many-other-issues-to count from central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia – CCCA. Black women are most affected by this condition - and we all know the barriers that Black women face receiving medical access and attentive care.

Please share this post and with the people in your life who need it, and can follow her story and travel along - more resouced and less isolated.

Since I was diagnosed with central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia – CCCA – I've vacillated between fighting for my hair and letting it all go. My highest self could care less about hair, but my ego is fully invested.

07/07/2021

05/03/2021

https://northsoundach.org/health-in-the-climate-crisis/
A great opportunity to hear from the kids who know they are tasked with the major work of galvanizing the change and cleaning up after us. Dan Vie

Health in the Climate Crisis: Integrative Approaches for Individuals and Communities Confluence: A meeting of the Taylor and Middle Fork Snoqualmie rivers. Register here! Adverse health impacts of the climate crisis have already emerged and will continue to increase in frequency and severity. These....

04/29/2021

Looking at life through the Magicada's 17-year cycle as we emerge from the the dark of pandemic isolation.

As I prepare to emerge from 14 months of Pandemic isolation, the 17-year cicadas are about to end their long sleep.

04/29/2021

As I prepare to emerge from 14 months of Pandemic isolation, the 17-year cicadas are about to end their long sleep.

04/29/2021

Looking at life through the Magicada's 17-year cycle at a time of emergence from the the dark.

As I prepare to emerge from 14 months of Pandemic isolation, the 17-year cicadas are about to end their long sleep.

03/27/2021

We tell and relive the grand sweep of the Exodus in a Covid-19 plague-ridden time

03/27/2021

Reflections on the eve of Passover - and for those who observe, may it be a sweet one. It appears, once again, that we are the Elijah we have been waiting for.

We tell and relive the grand sweep of the Exodus in a Covid-19 plague-ridden time

02/21/2021

Life under Covid. Again. Still. Vaccination dangled (just?) out of reach.

After many adjustments to Pandemic life 11months ago, the bits of “freedom" that Moderna promises provokes many feelings, including vaccination envy.

02/05/2021

Reflections on when injustices remain unaddressed while the clock never runs out.

Black History Month in a Groundhog Year: I reflect on centuries of Black and Brown peoples' survival of bone-crunching, spirit-defying control.

01/19/2021

SPOTS OPEN: Join me for 4-week Radical Inclusion Practice: Uncover and Harness Your Unconscious Biases. Given the heavily racialized events of the past two weeks, this is a moment to gather courage, up your skills to align with your highest values, enlist "discomfort" as an ally, deepen your empathy, and free yourself to serve in unimagined ways. Use link to register or PM me for a free 30-minute consult.

Radical Inclusion Immersion  Uncover and harness your unconscious biases through this 4 week beta program Through the work of Radical Inclusion, you will gain skills and resilience to uncover – include and harness your unconscious biases, as you: begin to perceive and unlearn stories that you wer...

01/14/2021

So the House has voted articles of impeachment. The National Guard patrols and sleeps in the Capitol. Yet another wall now surrounds the Capitol. Let's talk about how we can help bring back the world, and I don't mean a return to some imagined glory day.

Impeachment Redux: the House has impeached the sitting President a second time – – a necessary and insufficient action to rectify events, the extent of which will not be even known to us for some time. So it is up to us to answer this question posed by Kansas-born poet William Stafford, a consci...

12/31/2020

What does it mean to “neighbor”? How will I “neighbor” in my neighborhood? And how will I “neighbor” in the wider world – Baltimore? America? the world? How will I also think locally – as in you, and you, and you – are my neighbors as I act globally?
How about you?

...from my neighborhood, from the red house in the middle of the block. What does it mean to "neighbor" - making "neighbor" a noun for the moment?

12/21/2020

Treasure the light and the dark on this remarkable Winter Solstice, 2020. Skywatch this evening for the Brightest Star, Jupiter and Saturn together in the sky.

We carry the dark- losses and gried - of spring, summer and fall 2020 with us, as we are greeted by a once-in-800 years' Shining in the sky

11/26/2020

May you have the grace to reflect, enjoy your own good company, and find ways to connect with those you love.
Grateful for your readership, and the warm feedback you send my way.

Grief, gratitude, and starting to dig beneath the myth of Thanksgiving to its real and complex history.

11/24/2020

Set aside some reflecting, growing, creative-provocation time Dec 3-5. Technology therapist Mary Ginger Williams has hand-picked a group of professionals who have put years of heart and intelligence into our respective crafts - videos for each run just 20-30 minuets, so lots of good small bites. I'll be addressing diversity and inclusion, and taking viewers through a session of Radical Inclusion Practice. Join us! And please share this post liberally!https://sensiblewoo.podia.com/2020summitfree

11/07/2020

No matter who/what the outcome, love the world - and one another- in the ways you uniquely do.

No matter who wins the election, the world needs that all the ways you love it through your work. So carry on.