Remembering Our Most Essential Self: Re-Shaping the Story of Cancer

The mythos of cancer certainly presents like a picture book dark tale:  A hostile take over of unwholesome, mutated, out of control cell growth that is quite literally aiming to kill us.  Talk about a chilling image!  Posing as an infamous evil …

Yes, I’m writing!

  Wow!  Summer has just come and gone and here we are now in November!  It’s been a full few months for me, with back to back Lost Borders programs, the Washington Guides Gathering in the Eastern Cascades, and travel …

Mountain Lion Medicine

Personally, I have no idea how I would have made it through cancer treatment if it wasn’t for my relationship with the vision fast ceremony.  Throughout 9 months of various cancer therapies, I went for walks in an open space …

“We do not own our lives. We just take care of them.”

Les Kaye (Zen teacher) in one of the books that I am reading.  So much shifting in this journey.  Feeling my impermanence so strongly.  How short our transient, little lives really are.  Does it make such a big difference to …