It's only 8:30 in the morning and already I'm outnumbered. Besides squirrels and chipmunks, I'm usually I'm the only mammal around. But not today. This morning, as dawn was painting the sky a chicory-blue and the cardinals were chirping away, I walked around outside. I usually spend …
Katie Vie
The I in Hive
"There's no I in team". OK, fine.But there is an I in hive.And I like hive better than team anyway. And speaking of hives, we're in the season of birds-and-bees.And flowers.(Look outside. See?)This is a season of pollination.Pollination aka collaboration.The flowers are attracting pollinators, and …
Full Moon at Darkwood
I need to confess something. Because I don't want you to have to wrong impression about me. It's this: I don't orchestrate as many personal rituals as one might think. And my altars are often accidental. As an example, here's how Monday's full moon went here at Darkwood. I …
yougottabekiddingme
I'm going to tell you something about me you already know. I fumble with technology. I send broken links, dead web pages, incorrect coupon codes, and forget to update my apps. I have glitchy internet here at Darkwood, so sometimes Zoom is fuzzy. The list goes on. But if you know …
dear Anxiety
Being a creative is awesome. Except when it's not. I've been a creative my whole life; filled with ideas for projects, things to express and say, ways to collaborate. My sun is in the 5th house and you can tell. But with creativity comes this other thing. This crippling, confusing, …