If I'm not watching a historic drama or a medical show (dresses & doctors are my fav streaming genres), I'm watching a nature program. Last week I watched one about the Cheetah and I learned a lot about failure. The Cheetah is the fastest land animal, running at speeds up to 70 …
self reflection
The Warrior Why
This essay was originally published August 2021, edited for today just a tad. I’m off track. Again. It might look like I have it together, but I don’t. Like everyone, I’m frustrated that COVID is rearing back up. I’m frustrated that it’s not easy to sit with you, offer divinations, …
On Purpose
I'm writing to you under the best of circumstances. I'm sitting in the dark of early morning, when the air is cool like a pond. There's a rooster crowing across the valley and raindrops are plink-plinking off the leaves. Remember when I wrote to you about "roaring chi"? My chi is roaring …
The Warrior Why
I'm off track. Again. It might look like I have it together. But I don't. Like everyone, I'm frustrated that COVID is rearing back up. I'm frustrated that it's not easy to sit with you, offer divinations, invite you to Darkwood for a class. Plus, I'm spending this Warrior season …
Livin’ all the way
If you want your thighs to burn, gripping the flanks of a speeding horse. If you want your hair tangled by the sheer frenzy of it all. If you want your voice hoarse from a day of anthems and battle cries. Or your shoulders to never want for comrades. Or your hands to blaze with …