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The Great Blue Heron: Self-awareness & Determination

Great Blue Heron hunting among the spring cattails

The Great Blue Heron: Self-awareness & Determination

While the calendar may say the first day of spring begins on March 20 with the Spring Equinox, for me it begins when I see the first Great Blue Her...

The Call to Cocoon

This week started off alarmingly chilly, as if Mother Nature was giving us a reminder: Winter is coming, friends. Finalize your preparations. Altho...

Liberate

To ring in the new year I attended a 108 sun-salutation yoga class. I had been third on the waiting list so didn't expect to attend, but upon a las...

The Hawk

This morning I spotted a majestic hawk, I believe a Broad Winged, perched in the silver maple tree outside my bedroom window. Shortly after grabbin...

Imbolc

This week we celebrate Imbolc, a holiday that, in its simplest terms, marks the halfway point between winter solstice and spring equinox. Taking pl...

Conscious Creativity

Last fall I read Conscious Creativity by the indomitable Philippa Stanton. It was a game changer. Seriously. Never before has a book so fully opene...

Winter Wonderland

Winter in Minnesota can be a challenge, but it can also be gloriously beautiful. This year we have been blessed with a stretch of above-normal temp...

Creativity

“Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up” – Pablo Picasso There is creativity in all of us. Yes, you read th...

Gratitude

It's just one week before Thanksgiving. A Thanksgiving that promises to be wildly different than those of years gone by. So this year it's more imp...