17 November 2023

The Cailleach came to me in a dream the other night. This incredible hag—the first goddess, she who grants sovereignty, the ancients, the land—and I stood on a beach in a place that seemed at the edge of everything. Waves a thousand feet high rolled in like easy folds of velvet and washed the world…

6 November 2023

Frida Kahlo and her words resonate with me today. Wrapping our wings around those who are lost to the external and allowing ourselves to be transformed internally in that grief and love. I am working on my contemplative practice. Prayer. Listening. Quieting my compulsions to be heard. Realizing that the loud voice in my life…

17 October 2023

Our Lady of the Underworld celebrates her feast day Oct. 17. The many incarnations of Mary have fascinated me since I was a child, but none more than this form. I first discovered her through writings from Abbey of the Arts and have since found a deep connection. Our Lady of the Underworld, or Notre…

9 September 2023

One truly special place we went in Rome was Basilica di Santa Maria in Ara Coeli atop Capitoline Hill. We climbed the hundred or so steps to the top on our very last morning there. At that moment, we found ourselves lost in one of the most impressive and eclectic sites we visited in Italy….