What if no job or house or car or ideal weight or ideal husband is what is going to make you shine? What if there’s a bucket of magic in your secret heart and everything you witness stands transfixed, watching you, awaiting that moment when you smile and start flinging that sparkle everywhere. What if everything simply ...

Just pose the question to yourself, whether or not there's an impending weather event. What happens? Have you got excellent flashlights, fondue pots, Viewmaster sets and drawers full of good candles? Gallons of clean water, Sterno, batteries? It’s a comforting thing to have provisions. But still more comforting to know ...

Dance is a very powerful drug

"Dance is a very powerful drug, Mr. Keane. If embraced judiciously, it can exorcise demons, access deep seated emotions and color your life in joyous shades of brilliant magenta that you never knew existed. But, one must shoulder its challenges with intrepid countenance if one is ever to reap its ...

Choices

I am at Silver Diner for the first time, having a delightful Saturday morning. I've helped my Dad shovel two truckloads of mulch and, after my Belgian waffles, Amish eggs and nitrate-free bacon, I am going over to lounge around with my beautiful sister and talk of anything/everything. A lovely young ...

Everyday Adventures in Beingness: Some Ideas

Here are some things that might be fun. Or might not. You decide. Research memory. Or Joseph Campbell. Or the workings of the brain. Or the Shakers, or Diane Arbus, or Walker Evans. Wallpaper the bathroom with Bazooka bubblegum comics. Plan a weird ass party. Make yourself some paper mache birds and let them ...

Tap here

Tap here to begin writing, someone whispered, and she realized it had already begun. It had started somewhere after her telephone call with a friend from her early life, from when she was some inconsequential, flimsy thing unrecognizable to her now and it had fluttered, birdlike, when she began her ...

How to clear your space energetically

I use lots of tools for clearing my space and my body energetically, just depending on what feels right at the time. Here are some of them:

Lemons. Another healer taught me to cut up a couple of lemons and add them to the bath to immediately clear my energetic field of any energies that are no longer serving my highest good. I also drink a lot of water with lemons in it.

Dried white sage smudge sticks. I usually get Juniper Ridge white sage smudge sticks and keep these in the house at all times! These are great for smudging your body, your home, your crystals – anything that can use some clearing and some blessing.

Cedar incense. I am in love with this Juniper Ridge cedar incense and am always amazed by how good it makes the room feel. I’m pretty sensitive to smells so I can’t really manage most incense, but this one’s fantastic.

Palo Santo (the healing stick). You light the little sticks and smudge yourself and your space with the smoke. It has a really nice, clean smell. If you can’t find it locally you can get it here.

Mount Shasta blue sage and cedar smudge stick. Kenny and Kira brought home a smudge stick for me from Mount Shasta at the end of their two-month road trip throughout the west. It’s heavenly and mystical, just like the place, and made of blue sage and cedar.

Sea Salt. The best sort is unrefined sea salt, so it still retains its greyish or brownish color or, in the case of Himalayan salt, its gorgeous pink color. I either add this to the bath, or use it as a scrub in the shower to clear any energies that are no longer serving my highest good. You can also put some in tiny jars and set them in corners to ground and clear the room – just change it occasionally. I’m able to find this in bulk at the local health food store. It shouldn’t be scented in any way and shouldn’t cost more than $8-10 for a pretty good-sized bag.