Have you ever told a friend you would like to meet for lunch but you can’t find time to meet or you find that you forget about it? And every time you run into them you say the same thing. Let’s meet for lunch or I am sorry I haven’t had time to meet for ...
You’re driving home at the end of a long day. Exhaustion stretches over you like a long, lazy cat across your chest. It is hard to breathe and the fatigue feels unmovable. Your eyes are heavy, you can’t imagine how you are going to make the forty minute commute much less land at home with ...
You get a terse text from a friend that seems harsh. Too busy this week For some reason the text feels like hitting your face against a glass door. Ouch. And you can’t seem to get it out of your mind. Maybe your friend is mad at you for being sick when they had their ...
It is a beautiful morning here in the backyard of my little oasis in the city. I am able to enjoy my morning with a journal in one hand and tea in the other as I sit under the canopy of a giant Mimosa in a thicket of a bamboo forest. Each bamboo stalk continues ...
I found myself hiking the foothills open space trails last weekend because my local sanctuary, Sandia National Forest is closed due to extreme fire danger. The foothills trails are at the base of the Sandias and are used by bikers, hikers, folks with short dogs, tall dogs and small children. Unlike the pine and aspen ...
I have a morning practice of walking the Los Poblanos fields in center Albuquerque. In the fall, sandhill cranes and Canadian geese migrate and spend part of the winter rummaging the field. As summer comes, the acequia irrigation ditch fills up and bullfrogs croak and egrets and mallards swim in the flooded fields. The Sandia ...
This might sound familiar: you know what you want, but each time you move toward it, it feels like you face plant into a brick wall. For instance, maybe you want to reconnect with an old friend or loved one but you have been distant. Maybe it was a misunderstanding where feelings got hurt or ...
As summer begins blowing into our windows, what do we want to work on manifesting? The new moon is a powerful time to reset and set intentions for the future. Maybe it is creating a certain level of health – feeling constant energy or healing a shoulder pain. Or maybe it is to start activating ...
The other day when I was watering in my desert scape front yard, I heard the birdsong of the thrasher. It has a powerful voice that seems to move through me in a vibration that hits my heart in a ping. Its song got louder and more full as I pointed the hose toward the ...
Recently, my guides have been prompting me to be present in my body and to remember that all of my experiences hold messages. My job was to simply pay attention. I was reminded of this when I was hiking in the foothills and after climbing a short steep hill when I met a woman coming ...