What To Do When You Don’t Know What To Do

What To Do When You Don’t Know What To Do

  “I don’t know what to do.”   “I don’t know who I am anymore.” “Everything is up in the air.”   So many of us are finding ourselves repeating these mantras of the unknown these days.  They’re the language of endings and new beginnings, the lexicon of the...
Medicine for the Unknown:  on ritual, creativity + patience

Medicine for the Unknown: on ritual, creativity + patience

  I sat down this morning at my desk and sighed heavily, pulling my grandmother’s fleece shawl a little tighter around my shoulders.  I lit my sandalwood-scented candle and, as I often do when I wake in the mornings, I pulled a tarot card.   The 7 of...
What to do in the space between

What to do in the space between

  Everything is up in the air.   One deep breath.   I don’t know who I am anymore.   A glass of water.   I’m lost.   Belly to the earth, feet wide, head cradled.  Heart. Beat.   “I know honeybabe.  It’s hard...
This year, from here

This year, from here

  I feel like a base jumper   after running to the edge of a cliff   (an unknown)   and leaping off   in the moments before the utter silence and freedom of freefall. My heart is still pounding from the effort not yet accustomed to the ease....