living a life one breath at a time
thoughts, ramblings, incoherences, soap boxes, musings, and other things
On a lonely trail, in the middle of a midnight forest, I heard a voice. I’ve tried to write this story many times and each time I seem to have a knack in writing myself as utterly crazy. I hope to avoid that now. Like many people, I grew up with a Hollywood notion of […]
Read More You’ll find what you settle forI went on a hike a few weeks ago. It was a bright, crisp day, and the colors of Spring were vibrant. I felt energized just by being outside in the forest. The trails, cutting through the trees, were clear and contrasted with the surrounding rushes and grasses. While I was free to go in […]
Read More NiflheimIt was a couple of nights ago, perhaps a week. But I had a dream early in the morning where I went into a deep forest. It was twilight, not fully night or day. I’m uncertain if it was dawn, or dusk, or perhaps actually midday and the depth of the wood made it dark, […]
Read More Wolf DreamI recently attended Faerieworlds in Oregon. I’ve gone several years now and this was the first year that I started with the opening circle dance and finished with the last act, camping out the entire weekend. I loved it. I always do, but this time was different. It was at Hornings Hideout, lots of trees […]
Read More The Green ManMac kills PC in so many areas. I find that my workflow crashes to a halt when I have to go into the office and use their Windows systems. I hesitated in downloading any Microsoft programs onto my Mac because I don’t like anything about them, how they are organized. Even using Excel, which is […]
Read More MacwriterThroughout it all, Christ showed the way to love everyone. There will always be someone who offends us or attacks us or seeks to do us harm. Yet it is possible to still love throughout all of this. The Church is the embodiment of this principle.
Read More My attack on Christians… unless you are one.I’ve taken two walks on two different days. The day before I was watching t.v. and reading “Practical Celtic Magic” by Murry Hope and got the urge to go into the woods… so I up and drove 45 minutes to the Tillamook State Forest and went on a three hour hike. A short one. I […]
Read More A good walkPage 165 of the book “Flow”… The Conflict Betwen Being Alone and Being With Others: Of the things that frighten us, the fear of being left out of the flow of human interaction is certainly one of th worst. …. In many preliterate cultures solitude is thought to be so intolerable that a person makes […]
Read More a witch aloneThere is a great sythesis of many things occuring right now. My past year, years, of activities and readings and adventures have brought me full circle into fields with fresh eyes and deepened perspectives. The classes that I’ve signed up for at PSU are both connected to each other and what I am already moving […]
Read More the selfI have been pushing back a gathering of blackberries for some time. Today I went to go get some. I was also interested in the Hawthorn tree. Maddening enough, there are thousands of species of this plant. But as far as I can tell there are two groups, one group has one large seed in […]
Read More Nice walk