Council Way into our Full Humanity ~ The time for Courage

I feel both a deep blessing and sorrow, flowing from the past couple of months, or, rather, from the past couple of years.  Life has brought me shelter, food, dreams... Teachings, from all manner of teachers.  Herbs keep on being such keen allies, being at hand when I need them, before I need them.  Life keeps on bringing amazing people to my path...  I'm again being generously and lovingly hosted, creating the stability to offer more spaces.  Most of all I am grateful for the friendship and loving kindness that I keep on encountering on my way.

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Healthy Human Culture

Exploring Healthy Human Culture Even the name feels like a medicine, a process of transformation.  By creating that possibility, I am moving in that direction...  What does it mean, a Healthy Human Culture?  What does it mean for you, have you experienced it?  Can you image it, dream it? Beyond that kind of natural, perhaps…

A Council Way into our Full Humanity — Slowing down so that we can flow.

Time has become a mystery to me. Again. Or, rather, it has always been a mystery, but I deluded myself in thinking that it was just that linear thing measured by clocks and calendars. And it is that, too, I guess. But right now I am so aware of its non-linearity… Four months ago I…

Grief Circle – Tending and being tended

The cracks make this rock stronger. They bring a stunning beauty to it. There is always trepidation before I join a Grief Circle. Whether I "wear the facilitator's hat" or not. It is not coming from not knowing if it "will work"—I don't know what "will work" means in this context. No, I think the…

Tending our Grief: Loving Life

I've noticed a recent reticence to engage with "the sorrows of the world". I've heard others around me speaking of overwhelm, numbness, burnout. There seems to be so much pain, so much harm, so much violence. The soil around me so thirsty I can feel myself drying out. In other places water flushes away topsoil,…

A Council Way into our Full Humanity — Un-settling to move forth.

A sense of deep un-settling is a background for my current travels. And to me un-settling is a necessary thing for movement. I find a deep beauty in the idea of settling, of roots going deep in the soil. Yet I keep air-pruning mine. Perhaps it is the whole state of the world that unsettles me?…

June News – More Council Ways into our Full Humanity… transitioning into a pause

Dear Beings—of any denomination I sit in front of the possibility of simplicity, of making space by letting go of things that have supported me and could now support others.  The excitement of the space that that creates is tempered by the sweet pain of loss, of the uncertainty that comes with transitions. I have…

Council Journeys

The last couple of years have had an interesting effect—beside all the more obvious ones: they seem to have expanded my awareness of time, of the space of perception. I feel—and hear from others—the inevitability of bearing witness of enormous paradoxes. The seemingly inevitable bursting of life and the seemingly unstoppable spread of extinction. The…

A Council Way into our Full Humanity – Transitions

Earlier this year I felt a renewed sense of slowing down, of chaos around and in me settling in. That was end of January... Life has changed, as it always does. For me it has changed not that much, really, not compared to so many who find their reality completely shattered. And that is nothing new.…

Stories from the COP – Day 1

In early Glasgow this morning... the massive windows of prestigious luxury shops in the high street get pristine as the Climate Talks start today. My first visit to Glasgow. Ever. Yesterday I saw an excess of police vans in Edinburgh, and I've been hearing all manner of warnings regarding full trains, tension, all the usual…