Message From Mount Everest

    Message From Mount Everest

    In 2008, I was in the Sacred Valley in Peru, on a terraced hillside and in ceremony with a small gathering of Priests. In a circle of smoke, small items were unwrapped with white crumpled paper creating its own pile beside a growing altar of so many little things. ...
    New Moon, Low Tide and Shoe Sucking Mud

    New Moon, Low Tide and Shoe Sucking Mud

    I remember as a child my summer holidays in Norfolk, walking out across and through estuary mud and out to the Scolt Head sandy dunes. Here we would stay all day, playing along the beach/sea edge. The walk had to be taken at low tide and carefully marked with cairns...
    A Lament

    A Lament

    Lament: (lament, an expression of sorrow) First awaken and lament To brown and black bodies I say to all of you that all the ways my ancestors have hurt in any way seen or unseen, known or hidden, remembered or buried, denied or walked away from, I sit in true lament....
    The Being In The Center Of Everything That Is Happening

    The Being In The Center Of Everything That Is Happening

    Today I headed to the freeway using an old, tried and true way. As the entrance rose up where it had always been, I did not recognize the landscape. I was immediately disoriented, confused, and lost. Nothing appeared familiar leaving me with a strange feeling. My very...
    Climate Change: a crisis of disconnection

    Climate Change: a crisis of disconnection

    Detail from Aboriginal dreamlines artist Michaelle Possum Nungurrayi “Womens Ceremony” March 15th, 44 BCE: Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in the meeting of the senate of Rome of that era. This event was immortalized by the seer in Shakespeare’s play...
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