Weaver

I had an experience this summer that gave me the opportunity to weave together three decades worth of study.

It brought me to my knees. I just kept saying.. wow, what a gift, what a blessing.

I’ve followed my interests and the little breadcrumbs so earnestly for my entire life.
I was raised in the forests. Brought up through Southern Baptism.
Participated in Student Government, Mock United Nations and Youth Legislature.
I was President and Vice President. Lawyer, Supreme Court Justice, Most School Spirited.
I got a degree in Environmental Economics and Policy, a minor in French, and was a Public Policy Scholar.
I studied abroad in Ghana, traveled in Europe, and spent time in Guatemala, Indonesia, and around.

I worked in Washington, DC presenting research on public perspectives towards renewable energy and on creating sustainable economies in coal counties.

I learned that statistics and polls are based upon a sample size that often does not represent the whole AND that most academic journal entries and presented studies are backed by sources chosen to support the hypothesis.

I saw that DC politics was more about perpetuating a culture than creating great change to support a better world.

I learned I was heart centric not certainty dependent.
I left and traveled.
I heard the trees of Oregon tell me I needed to save them.

I became a park ranger at Arches National Park in Moab, UT and had the millions of years old rocks laugh at me... they mocked me for thinking I could save the world... reminding me one day I’d be just a layer of dust in their great walls of time.

I moved to Northern California and dove into a deep practice of yoga.
I became certified as a preschool teacher and taught Waldorf preschool for years.
Worked on a food farm, learned how to save seed and the significance of seed sovereignty.

Built out age appropriate environmental curriculum for children pre-k through high school.
I spent several years building a yoga school (business) and taught folks how to teach yoga, traveled and taught in different regions and cultures.

And broke a huge societal spell that had stolen my nature for far too long.
I learned how to sustain an awakened heart.

And I found God again. This time she was the Mother.

I quit my career and left the mountains. Now I’m here in Sacramento.

This past summer I had my story told back to me and it was rich, meaningful, and timely.

It helped me understand a bigger picture.
This page is me taking a step out of my privacy to share how I make sense of the things going on out there in the external world.

As someone who has such a deep internal sacred reality, I want to share how I move in and out of the realms... mostly by weaving.

I’ll be here weaving together all things sacred with all the terror and confusion.

Drawing lines between new and old, imaginary and real, felt and feeling and all things in between... with the purpose of Evoking Reverence for this life.

In these times.