In between choosing the words to weave this article together I glance up and look out my sunroom window.  There I spy three goldfinches extracting seeds from the sunflowers and a hummingbird and swallowtail butterfly drinking nectar from the scotch thistle blossoms. 
     As I merge with the energies of this season I feel [...]

A good dose of remembering that you are human – imperfect and capable of making mistakes, goes a long way to forgiving yourself when you fall off of your change wagon. Within every fall is a valuable lesson if you choose to learn it. So get up and get going again.

Yes indeed I believe that we are still living in the dark ages, but the good news is that the darkness is being replaced by dawning light. We are awakening to remember how we were created to live in a fully alive world, cooperating with one another and other living things and systems.

I have been listening to hear what my next column‘s content was supposed to cover and I have heard a few whispers about heat islands and tree cover and corporations morphing into co operations and then one of my American Shamanic colleagues sent me something that he wrote recently [...]

Since the oil rig fire and ensuing oil spill I am continuing to reduce my dependence on oil and it’s related forms.
I have chosen to transform my anger into energy for positive change in my lifestyle. Most of my regular readers already know that my favoured form of transportation is two feet [...]

Illusions are everywhere.
Sometimes we pay for these illusions to entertain us and distract us from the challenges of life, other times they intrude into the fabric of our daily lives without asking our permission, and other times we remain in denial to the truth because it is too scary. The field of [...]

Some of nature’s healing is obvious. Grabbing some rays on a sunny day quickly increases our blood levels of Vitamin D which in turn helps us to absorb and assimilate our mind and muscle relaxing minerals. This in turn often leads to a good nourishing night of sleep which further boosts [...]

Balance is all about polarities. Hot with cold, light with dark, good with bad. The yin yang mandala is the simplest yet most powerful visual representation of this balance. The outer circle represents the totality of everything. The dark and light spaces within the circle represent the two opposite [...]

Lots of things are coming to my attention these days that make me want to scream. You may have heard me already in your dreams or those quiet spaces between your heartbeats. Many people that I have talked to recently tell me that they have been feeling angry and shocked and don’t [...]

Earth Week is well under way. I was privileged to start the week with a despacho ceremony on Friday night at Creative Eye on James Street in Wallaceburg. I wanted to get things going with a dose of good energy. It has been a few years since I have set the time [...]