When we hiked out of the forest at dawn before the logging trucks, the stars glittered through spindly giants, uninterrupted by branches, whispering birth secrets.   The Kalmiopsis Wilderness in Southeastern Oregon burned two years before in an all-you-can-eat...

I am afraid of my phone.  That is usually the way that I find out that someone has died or attempted to die.  I slide my finger across the screen and the halted voice of someone I love begins revealing details about someone who has gone. He left a note.  She didn't...

We need to talk. Last week, I dropped the whole enchilada filling on the floor thirty minutes before everyone arrived.  I crumpled like a tissue.  My loved ones just looked at me; this was not an emergency, why was I falling apart?  I said something sharp, blamed...

One of the challenges of the 21st century is to calm down and prioritize what really matters to us.  The more over-stimulated we are, the less likely we are to respond to situations with our full intelligence, compassion and resources.  And we have a LOT TO DO to...

I am at a spiritual retreat in the woods of Squamish, British Columbia. We stand in a circle in a meadow at sunset among towering cedar and Douglas fir trees. One person asks out loud if the land will be our teacher, if we can learn what it knows about what it needs,...

I spoke with Jamie Seraphina Capranos, a friend and colleague in August of 2012 about the concept of embodiment in medicine. She practices as a homeopathic physician and a midwife on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia and travels throughout Canada and the US...