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Tarot for Transition: Tarot Journaling for Joy

Self-love’s Ace of Cups Egret lands, folds outstretched wings Heart rests between flights. I wrote this tarot haiku years ago after watching an egret sail into view, land beside the bay, and fold his outstretched wings onto his back.…
deep red petaled rose, backlit gold and unfurling in red ridges descending gold. while lipped petals too

July Classes: Pathways to Illuminations, Ruminations, and Poetry

Everywhere in nature I see invitations to go the distance as a writer and artist. Take this rose, bid by the sun to unfurl from center out, leaving in its spiral form and spectrum of petal reds and golds a reminder to obey the heat and hold…

Two Views of Healing: Songs of Survival

For Songs of Survival, I am reading two poems, “Peer Counselor,” and “Opossum,” for the celebration of the anniversary of the MeToo movement at Awakenings Gallery in Chicago this coming Thursday, October 18, 2018 (go here for tickets). In…

Tarot Tuesday: Shifting Perceptions of Brokenness and a Three of Wands Writing Prompt

“Balance within my domain” (Angeles Arrien, The Tarot Handbook: Practical Applications of Ancient Visual Symbols) is how I experienced and lived my Two of Wands week (writing prompt for Two of Wands here). My dear friend Mary Allen visited…

Tarot Tuesday: Cupped Palms and a Nine of Disks Writing Prompt

Living my Eight of Disks week, I find myself in hibernation with my darling Flamingo writing group (though we will Come Out: we are appearing this coming Saturday for the first time as ourselves, The Flamingos, at Four Eyed Frog Books in Gualala.…

Tarot Tuesday: Six of Disks Spiral Exchange and A Seven of Disks Writing Prompt

Living my Six of Disks week, I found my life magically aswirl with words—manuscripts by my various writing friends arrived in my inbox for me to read and I in turn sent out a first draft of my own latest manuscript I'm passing around for feedback.…