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Winter Solstice/Yule (December 18-January 6) This is the season of religious and cultural celebrations worldwide, including Christmas, New Year, Hannukah, and Kwanzaa. It’s the darkest day of the year, around December 21, yet with that darkness comes the promise of...
For the last several weeks, my days have carried the soundtrack of chainsaws and trucks. The woods behind my house have been undergoing a constant cutting down. The pause of the grating buzz of the chainsaws has stopped only brieflyto give way to crashing thuds as...
We live in a world of increasing disorder, proliferating injury to humankind, accelerating loss of Earth's life forms, and spreading destruction of Mother Earth herself. And yet, I find hope and comfort in ancient wisdom and practices. Shamanic people the world over...
Winter Solstice/Yule (December 18-January 6) This is the season of religious and cultural celebrations worldwide, including Christmas, New Year, Hannukah, and Kwanzaa. It’s the darkest day of the year, around December 21, yet with that darkness comes the promise of...
For the last several weeks, my days have carried the soundtrack of chainsaws and trucks. The woods behind my house have been undergoing a constant cutting down. The pause of the grating buzz of the chainsaws has stopped only brieflyto give way to crashing thuds as...
We live in a world of increasing disorder, proliferating injury to humankind, accelerating loss of Earth's life forms, and spreading destruction of Mother Earth herself. And yet, I find hope and comfort in ancient wisdom and practices. Shamanic people the world over...
You have a giant question writhing around inside you. For each of us it may be a different question, but we all have one. You’ve been wrestling with it, trying to articulate it your whole life, trying to find an answer. The image comes up for me of the Tarzan TV show...
Thank you, Jaime. I think this article is what I will tape to the wall of my bathroom!
Thank you Jaime. I especially need this today, our national day of mourning for our beloved past president and for all those devastated by the LA wildfires. You said it all. And it’s only January 9th 2025.
I plan to read this everyday. Blessings and love to you.
Great article and resonates in a much more in depth and eloquent way, what I have been also feeling. Thank you.
Great piece. As I was reading I was taking notes. My daily spiritual practice will evolve. Prayers. Mantras (adding). Who knows how it will develop. Three of the new mantras is directly inspired/taken from your words are: I refuse to live in someone else’s small universe. I refuse to get lodged in outrage. Curiosity is my guide. I need to figure out how to make the first two positive. But it’s a beginning.
Jamie…a very GROUNDED approach that reveals what might seem to be the “obvious” but, unfortunately we’ve/I’ve been unknowingly complicit in effecting its obscurity by fueling the chaos with my own “vitriol” in protest.
Your writing brings into a focus a healthier alternative, kudos!
On a side note…as we enter 2025 I would like to extend my gratitude to those authors who willingly share their perspectives each month on this platform and to the administrator(s) who allow others (like me) to offer comments.
Personally, this platform provides me an opportunity to reduce my thoughts into writing and share my perspective. Not always comprehensible and even non-sensical at times, 🤪(Dyslexic/ADD).
Ahoohee ( many thanks)
Ohh SO wise and helpful Jaime. I will read and think about your words often as 2025 begins. Thank you.
Very helpful in many ways. I appreciate that you put this together and shared.
Thank you Jamie, I felt joy and love and a sense of acceptance while reading this. I’m not a very good writer or artist but I do look forward to creating something that will give me joy without passing judgement on how imperfect it might be. Blessings to you