MountainWave Tribe

Pulling a book from the shelf, flip the pages to find some church for the day, I find this, a blessing by Jan L. Richardson that feels like ...

5 years I think... I am awake, pleasantly so, with the birds singing the memory up from my mind, calling it forth from my heart as they d...

From that brief moment in time that found me waiting tables in Texas, I borrow a phrase. In the weeds  refers to being so busy that tasks ar...

Leo and I were gifted a book on the occasion of becoming parents by a friend and Waldorf school teacher. I started it this morning (because ...

It is Mothers Day, early morning. I am nursing my two babies to the gentlest of sounds--babies' breath and raindrops. It is my first Mot...

It is so easy to confuse power and authority. Authority belongs to those with the character, the wisdom and the compassion to command it....

The Lenten season is upon us. Today is what is known in my faith tradition as Shrove Tuesday (Fat Tuesday, Pancake Day) during which it is c...

In your eyes, I see the doorway To a thousand churches. -Peter Gabriel

If the only prayer you say in your whole life is thank you, that will suffice. -Meister Eckhart

There are two babies growing inside of me. Precious bodies, getting fatter by the day, stretching me  in the many ways. Body, mind,...

                Ring the bells that can still ring.                 Forget your perfect offering.                 There is a crack...

We can make our mind so like still water That beings gather about us that they may see, It may be, their own images, and so l...

One of my favorite collection of lines...and this 11 year old child breathing it, embodying it, allowing me to hear it again and as if for t...

Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangl...

Imagining myself sitting in the middle of this groovin' pod of love and jam and soaking in some Good Vibrations.  C'mon over here s...

says Hafiz in my mind today: "Now is the season to know That everything you do Is sacred." so I smile and br...

In memoriam sisters and brothers In sacred circle hope for peace is renewed and we rededicate ourselves to work for peace. Pe...

Don't worry about what the world needs.   Ask what makes you come alive and do that  because what the world needs  is people w...

Two things that, as my day unfolded yesterday, I thought important to add to yesterdays post: 1. I want to acknowledge that it is not easy ...

I spend time with someone who has many years under her belt and who, over those years, has worn deep groves in the field of her mind. These ...

Valentines Day is here and while much of the focus of this day is on the romantic vibe of lovers (and what a magical thing that is), there i...

It is by reaching out beyond ourselves and connecting with the other generations that we begin to know our place at the sacred circle. My g...

Frederick Buechner writes, "The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet....

peace

If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a...

It is the birthday of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. I've been perusing YouTube and Vimeo videos for awhile this morning and came upon one ...

"Joy is more than an emotion, it is a way of being in the world."

This morning I walked on the beach with a friend as the elements sparkled and shined around us. Walking and creating little somethings in th...