We Are Beloved

Our weekly meditation meets on Zoom
on Tuesday from 8 - 8:55am Pacific
Given freely — donations warmly welcome
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We will not meet 3/25/25

Weekly Meditation Gathering

A gentle, guided drop-in session open to all. This gathering explores a wide range of practices — each session is created to suit the moment and those present. The way we practice sees meditation as an innate human capacity, recognizing that our minds are made for curiosity and wonder, and making space to fall naturally into states of contemplation, rest, and reverie for integration and creation. This practice is amenable to busy minds and is trauma-aware: choice, grounding, exploration of somatic experience, and thoughtful self-regulation are steady threads.

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Weekly Newsletter

On Hypernormalization

May 28, 2025 — I've noticed a funny thing the last couple of weeks: I stopped feeling upset about the deluge of plundering and oppression raining down on the world right now. At first I was relieved...

Digging for Dinner

May 21, 2025 — The same lesson, then and now: how beautiful it is that the Earth feeds us, that we belong, that in time we feed the Earth, become the Earth. I am deeply reminded that food is not inherently of-capitalism, it just gets sucked into that. What we eat is the life of the Earth. We are all that, weaving.

The Magic Within Because Between Us

May 14, 2025 — The miracle of the healing, though, takes place inside the person being prayed for. Isn't that incredible? Their knowledge of the seeds I am planting with my ritual, song, and love somehow blossoms into healing.

Where Hope is Born

May 7, 2025 — Hope, she points out, requires only that we are willing to hold uncertainty about the future. This simple point was a wedge that blew my heart and mind wide open. It's so easy! Do I know what will happen? I do not not! Truly, I do not know what the future will hold. This is the seed of hope.

Small, Profound Pleasures at Beltane

May 1, 2025 — The story of the dandelions on my altar begins in my mother's kitchen. A few years ago during a visit I noticed that she had dandelion puffs on a thread above her sink. This blew my mind: how was she DOING that? How did they get there, and how did they last?

I Love to Wonder

Apr 17, 2025 — My wonder is an act of devotion and it fuels the love I feel in every fiber of my being for the cosmos, and the trust I feel in the mystery.

Greening

Apr 10, 2025 — This week I'm going to speak to you of finding sustenance, which is what I've been gently tending to for myself as I settle back into my routines in the unfurling springtime on the Olympic Peninsula.

The Holy Season of Spring

Mar 18, 2025 — Beloved friends, Last year in my meditation-and-living workshop I asked if anyone wanted a partner for support and inspiration. One person responded, so she got me. We began with a simple daily question: "What does practice look like for you today?" Sarah had taken other courses, so I&

The Light Show at the Heart of the Galaxy

Mar 6, 2025 — I hope you find this missive filled with invitations to awe, wonder, and hope.

Holding Fast to Internal Freedom

Feb 26, 2025 — By holding the space within me as my own I am better able to remain clear-sighted and agile and to retain the agency which allows me to act for the good of all.

The Strong Call of the Here and Now

Feb 13, 2025 — Just after Imbolc, the midpoint between the winter solstice and the vernal equinox, winter landed here on the Olympic Peninsula. It's been a solace, the need to bow with respect to the life of the Earth.

Calming Down, Speaking Up

Feb 5, 2025 — I'm going to add a section called Resistance which will follow Resources. We all need moments of respite from grief and chaos. I want to offer this. Silence, though, would be in grave disharmony with my ethics. So: a clear label and placement that supports your agency.

Reaching for the Strawberry

Jan 28, 2025 — There is an old Buddhist teaching story that feels ripe for this moment.

Light in Darkness

Jan 22, 2025 — Energetic Integrity: a Workshop for Living begins 2/1 and our free Community Reading of Rebecca Solnit's fine little book Hope in the Dark is underway.

30 Years of Teaching, A New Workshop, & Community Reading

Jan 15, 2025 — Registration for the winter-spring Energetic Integrity workshop opens now. We will explore the Field of Being meditation which I last taught 8 years ago, cultivating our ability to center, ground, clear, vitalize, and boundary.