My mom loved Southwest art. My dad loved my mom. I loved them. When the eagle kachina dropped into our lives, I was greedily snatching as much time with them as I could, building memories. One day my dad called and said he’d found an art piece for mom. “Not like yours,” he said wryly. […]
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What Made My Deaf Dog Hear Again, Part 1
My son is deaf. My youngest dog, my Velcro boy, my goofy sweet Alki, is stone cold deaf. It happened when I wasn’t looking. Somehow, the years between puppyhood and senior dog warped and folded in on themselves, and my little boy aged. It shocks me, really. Just yesterday he was an exuberant, mischievous puppy, […]
It’s Summertime: Lavender and Good Business Are Both In!
It’s been a strange summer in Seattle, in fact, two stranger summers in a row. Cooler than normal, and damp when it’s usually dry. But all’s well because the lavender is here! I use lavender for my business. I keep huge bunches of the grosso variety everywhere, clumped in vases, draped over towel racks, and […]
Yellowstone Adventures: Moose Kissing Beaver
My friend, Margaret, and I decided to visit Yellowstone together. I can’t get enough of Yellowstone, she’d never been, and we knew between the Park’s bounty, our high spirits, and my clumsiness we’d have adventures. Especially since we had no intention of avoiding any (although Margaret thought seeing Old Faithful once was enough, which is […]
The Guardians of Alki
Yes, I talk with gardens and the beings who look out for them: where I live, I call them the Guardians of Alki, because Alki Beach is our neighborhood, and the names the guardians have historically been assigned are mean and scary and not worthy of us or them. Besides, at the time it didn’t […]
Is It Weather Worker or Weather Talker? How to Work with Weather
I call myself a weather talker, not a weather worker. There is a difference. A weather worker changes the weather, usually because the weather worker wants to. The weather and the land around it, including the guidance forces that created it, are not always consulted. While many of us can change the weather (yes, change […]
What It Means to Talk with All Life
We can all talk with all life, from our food to our cars, animals to plants, businesses to homes, volcanoes to weather systems. Everything you can imagine—and many things you can’t—can speak with us. In fact, they are all already speaking to each other. In fact, the only ones who are not participating in an […]
Talking with Our Businesses: The First Principle
I was surprised when I first spoke intuitively with a business. It just hadn’t occurred to me, even though I knew that everything is alive. Literally. A tricky part is how that reverberates in our lives, or, perhaps, whether we will allow it to. For people the concept that other beings have something to say […]
Talking with Our Homes: The First Principle
I always start at the beginning when I talk with people about intuitively communicating with anything, especially our homes. That means we start with the earth paradigm, which acknowledges that all life, whatever its physical form, has a separate and distinct soul and personality, consciousness, equality, rights, responsibility, and free choice to do its work […]
Space Clearing or Space Cooperating: The Difference Is Mindset
Many wonderful, capable, intuitive people offer space clearing. I don’t. At least not the way I hear it described by others. Space cooperating is, for now, the most accurate description for what I do together with my partner, the crystal Fallon. The difference is mindset. I do my best to operate from the earth paradigm, […]