I’ve been asking for months if there’s anyone “in charge” on the land that we’re building a home on that would speak with me. But it’s been very quiet there. Not in a bad way, but just….quiet. In hiding maybe? I really wanted to meet the spirit of the land. In an unrelated journey earlier …
*I always dream in italics. I’m working at a bank, helping out at another branch in another city. Mostly I work during the day but sometimes they need me to work overnight doing security for the building. One night I’m there alone and am watching the local news and it shows a mountain lion caught …
This is exactly how conversations with spiders (or anything else) goes in my head. You really can talk with any animal or bug or tree or plant just like this. While you just think you’re making up a funny conversation in your head, it’s likely the actual response that you’re hearing. It just sounds the …
The woods have been calling me for the past month. I didn’t know what they wanted to tell me, only that I needed to come visit. Alone. I finally made the trip yesterday and was not disappointed. The giant redwoods are thousands of years old and have survived fire, flood and more and I knew …
The largest lavender plant I’ve ever seen spoke quietly to me today. I was happy to see it and asked its permission to touch it. I quickly handled it and briefly enjoyed its intoxicating scent before hustling into the crosswalk while the light was still green. And now I just remembered this encounter and realized …
I get it. Lots of people are afraid of spiders. I’m not. I’m just not and never have been. If there’s a spider in my house, I pick it up and put it outside. Yes, that includes black widows. My husband is of the other variety – if it comes in the house, it has …
On the road I live on, there is a grove of pine and fir trees. This is not unusual – I live in a forest filled with fir, pine and cedar trees – but from the first time I drove down this road to see this house, I felt like this grove was different…special. Every …
I dream about mountain lion a few times a year. This time, I dreamt I was in a parking garage and looked into the bed of a pickup truck. When I did, I saw a mountain lion that appeared to be dead. It immediately jumped up and looked back at me. I was frightened and …
While working in the office today, a friend came running in the door and shouted “Who wants to see pygmy nuthatches right now?!” The answer was apparently all of us and we all ran outside with our binoculars to look. There they were in a stand of Ponderosa Pines in the park across the street. Pygmy Nuthatches …
