March 20th, 2025 Hi Source friends, I’ll invite you right here and right now to take a deep breath,...
March, 2025 Would spring come again even for me? And if it did would it find me brave enough to...
January 2025 NEW YEAR Hope lives in the blankness of each new calendar square, the footsteps of a few appointments already scrawled across those pristine, snowy fields. We leap at this chance to hit the reset button on life, to pause here at the cusp and draw a deep breath...
December, 2024 WATER, EARTH AND SKY: GROUNDING OURSELVES IN WINTER I could write the same December newsletter every year,...
FREEDOM OF EQUANIMITY: Finding Calm and Center Amidst Life’s Challenges Fall Retreat with Erin Joosse November 1st-3rd at The Whidbey...
June 2024 PEACE OF WILD THINGS by Wendell Berry When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in...
TIME FOR A STUDIO REFRESH! Take Note – we will be canceling or moving classes online Memorial Day Weekend for...
This time of year is always funny – It’s balmy and spring like one day, cold and blustery the next...
November 2023 When big things happen both in our life and in the world around us, we might struggle to make sense of them and wrestle with how to respond. If you spend any time online (ahem, who doesn’t these days?), you are seeing the events of the world filtered...
It was damp and cool when I woke up, one of the first mornings that really felt like fall. I...
August, 2023 I’ll keep this short and sweet, and I promise not to talk about fall too much yet –...
June, 2023 Creativity and Renewal: Summer Retreat with Erin Joosse Harmony Hill Retreat Center July 22nd-24th For more than 15 years, I have been leading retreats to Harmony Hill, a beautiful retreat center on the Hood Canal. In more recent years, I have led them 3 times a year – in October,...