Photo: Martha Brettschneider/Damselwings Photography The sound of her weathered hiking boots hitting the dirt trail alternated with the lighter taps of her trekking poles as she made her...
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Moose Meditation and Other Lessons From Awake in the Wild 2023
Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center Nature helps us find the way out of the prison of our mind. ~ Eckhart Tolle The moose didn’t notice me sitting on the glacial boulder just about 20...
A Day of Connection at Our Secret Garden Reset Retreat
Photo credits for this post go to Melissa Maillett Photography I am still buzzing with gratitude and the heightened sense of connection and aliveness that follows our mindfulness in nature...
When Letting Go Helps You Find Your Own Course
I put my photography on the back burner this year. It had become too commercially driven for my comfort level. The sense of wonder, mindful connection with nature, and playfulness that...
We Are Called to Evolve
I surprised a friend recently when I told her that I was hiring someone to do my spring garden clean-up this year. This friend has known me for twenty years, so she knows that in an...
The Wisdom of Icy Ponds and Leaf Skeletons
A few days ago, visiting Denver’s Botanic Gardens, I encountered my own version of William Blake’s “To see a World in a Grain of Sand / And a Heaven in a Wild Flower…” I discovered the...
Quantum Growth 101
Greetings! Jumping in on this last day of January, 2023, to let you know how pumped I am for the year ahead. The stage is set for quantum growth! I’ve dropped in the term “quantum growth”...
Refreshed, Restored, and READY! How Can I Best Serve YOU?
Whew! We are just one week into 2023 and I can’t believe how quickly my batteries have recharged and refreshed me after my depleting December. Last month’s challenges are such a gift to me...
Not My Best December…And What I’m Doing to Adjust Course
Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash It seems to me that the quality of our life should concern us far more than the wake or trail we leave behind. If we endeavor to live well, to use our...
My 2022 Damselwings Art Show Fundraiser Recipient: ECDC Refugee Resettlement Agency
Every year I donate a portion of my holiday season art show proceeds to a local non-profit organization that has inspired me in some way over the previous twelve months. This year, the...
Fall Foliage as Mindfulness Practice
Is it my imagination or is this year's fall foliage more vibrant than usual? Here in the mid-Atlantic region, this seems to be the case. Of course, it's also true that whenever we bring...
Falling to the Level of My Training
Photo credit: John Arano via Unsplash "We don't rise to the level of our expectations; we fall to the level of our training."~ Greek poet Archilochus I can’t remember when I first read or...