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New Moon Earth Day
Photo: Gulf Mourning Action (protesting the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. June, 2010, East River, Brooklyn). Holding the paradox… For this Earth Day, I would like to share the ritual I performed for...
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Trance Poetics is now an Online Course!
TrancePoetics is an online trance writing experience designed to open your creative process through the medicines of language and imagination. Dear subscribers to Trance Poetics: Firstly, thank you...
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Memorial Weekend: a time to remember your ancestors
Last summer, for “some reason” I downloaded an app that would help me to identify the weeds in my backyard. From this app, I learned that a few of the weeds were medicinal, and so I began foraging...
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Time is not clock.
“Time is of the essence.”Of course, you’ve heard this phrase spoken with authority. It means hurry up. Get it done. Focus only on what is immediately important.I don’t know about you, but I’m having...
View ArticleTrance Noise: New Year’s Offering
Happy New Year…I hope! Normally on New Year’s Day I’d be at the Poetry Project at St Mark’s Church in NYC for the annual marathon, listening to poets performing their art to a packed sanctuary. This...
View ArticleRhythm, writing, and The List Poem
Made for the Manhattanville MFA program guest video series, 4/27/2020 A List of List Poems (always evolving) A list poem is an ancient poem: Homer (800 BC): “The Iliad” Ibn Khālawayh (10th century):...
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An Ecopoetic Forest Bathing Guided Walk
https://mindbodystudies.com/product/forest-bathing-guided-walk/ Forest Bathing is a meditative practice of surrendering one’s mind to the expansive and ever-changing energy of the forest. It was...
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A Winter Solstice Ritual
Hello from the darkest dayof this planet’s Northern HemisphereThis will be an extraordinary winter solstice as Saturn and Jupiter travel in tandemto align at the exact same degree(the closest they’ve...
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Spring! Where the old myths reside…
drawing by Amanda Clark I love how old myths seep into cultural rituals. Even cultural symbols as benign as the Easter bunny are diluted from a smorgasbord of ancient rituals celebrating the changing...
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Permacultures and Pollinator Pathways of Mind
Westchester, NY Pollinator Pathway Garden Tour Sunday June 13! The suburban backyard I inherited when I moved into this house was sculpted with ornamental trees and plants, some of them lovely...
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