in studio habits of the mind, we find ourselves training the muscles to know how to slip into appreciation and wonder as easily as our feet do in a favorite pair of shoes. this kind of ease allows so much to come to life because it sharpens our tools for seeing, appreciating, and cultivating beauty. class begins september 9th, sign up here.

we meditate on wednesdays 8:30 am pst, twice a month with the moon. the next one is september 9. want to come join us?

today went something like this, i woke up to the sound of a car before dawn, a neighbor heading out to his early morning yoga class. more sleep, waking again to streaky blues because its february and the sun has to stretch across the sky before arrving to illumnate the day. there was congestion around the coffee maker because two tired, semi-sick parents kept running into each other as we bumbled our way through morning beverages. the dog went out to pee. he came back with 2 lbs of wet sand attached to him, he was toweled off. the towel dropped the 2lbs of sand on the kitchen counter.

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i made one kid lunch, diving into the pickled vegetables because no one wanted to grocery shop this week.

the other kid agonized about how to organize the perfectly ornate outfit and complained about the ratio of oatmeal to blueberries.

the radio played every song of my 17 year old self in a row and i washed the morning dishes while laughing outloud at the earnestness of little me and her love for, Tori Amos, Ani Di Franco, First Aid Kit….each one telling the man to fuck off with amazing vocal range.

i read the headlines.

i read about sunscreen.

i tucked the poems from yesterday back on the shelf with a hope that i might visit them later today.

one list of tasks

a shower outside under the oak tree.

it was like this.

i thought about all of this becuase a few days ago, a friend sent a newsletter about her conception of what it is to be an artist over the course of a lifetime and i felt something. it woke me up.

i think that artists are some of the bellwethers of time. her note explained how she has been shifting her thinking from the recognition of pieces of work to a broader one that imagines and holds herself as a body of work that unfolds over the timelien of a life. moments are punctuated by public sharing of work, projects are created, much of the work happens day to day quietly, privately.

this rang clear and true. and now, in february of what is already the longest 2026 i can remember, i hold this idea as guidepost because what i know about creativity, about intuition, about imagination is that we make the world each day. we make it through practice.

and the fascinating thing about practice is that is often invisible. it is a force unseen in our lives guiding our hands as we wait at the grocery store, stretch our legs outside on a walk, get to know a neighbor.

practice is often likened to flexing a muscle and while i guess that can be true it is a little reductive. i want us to imagine practice as miles horton said it, “making a path by walking.” we don’t do it alone ever. we do it in collaboration with the human and more than human. we call ourselves home again and again.

im so curious, what do you do to call yourself home?

we meditate on wednesdays 8:30 am pst, twice a month with the moon. the next one is august 26. want to come join us?

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it wasn’t something that i meant to be doing, i would just go find the flowers or the sweetest strawberries and buy them first. they often stood out, the first figs of the season, a perfect persimmon glowing there, shaggy headed sunflowers. i would wander the market, noticing the smells, enjoying the colors of the piles of fruits and vegetables, making eye contact with all the handsome strangers …

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speaking of time-based practices, our moon timed sit offers a simple way to touch into practices of presence. come sit with us for the new and full moon, every other wednesday 8:30 am pst.

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and its time to sit together again with the moon! this week we will be meditating on wednesday from 8:30-9:00 experimenting with listening and how that places us in our minds and body. think pauline oliveros, john cage, brian eno.

this work of inhabiting and being in the world is deeply supported by our more than human kin, i offer clinical one on one…

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this fall i’d love to spend a few weeks with you in practice. our lives are our studios, our own places of play and imagination. in studio habits of the mind, you will get to explore what these practices are for yourself situated in the creative verdant situation of your own life. i am just sorting out the exact dates so make sure you on the waiting list here for studio habits of the mind.

and its time to sit together again with the moon! this week we will be meditating on wednesday from 8:30-9:00 experimenting with listening and how that places us in our minds and body. think pauline oliveros, john cage, brian eno.

this work of inhabiting and being in the world is deeply supported by our more than human kin, i offer clinical one on one work that includes getting to know your specific plant allies, channeled guidance, and daily support for having a body in the wilds of the present moment. if you are looking for this kind of support, you can schedule here

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beginning this fall, i will be teaching: studio habits of the mind, a supportive container and learning about how to be in, how to inhabit, how to know your creative practice in conjunction with place. we will set the circumstances for on-going collaboration with our places, our people, and maybe most importantly ourselves. read more about it here and get on the waiting list.

and each week, i am sitting with people as they deepen their relationships with plants in the clinic in support of their bodies, their lives, and their greater communities that they touch. if you are looking for

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moon sit: half-hour meditation, wednesday July 15, 8:30-9:00 am

it was the summer of tongue twisters. repeated faster and faster and faster until everyone in the room was humming, fuzzing, and hovering above ground a few inches with the sounds. a summer of real swimming, its not cold swimming, pilled bathing suit swimming, belly flop practice swimming.

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new moon mediation happens next wednesday and each two weeks, 8:30-9:00 on zoom. register here. we sit, we notice, we practice being free. donation based, as always!

come draw and play! on june 25, at neon raspberry art house, we’ll be playing exquisite corpse. from 4-7. this surrealist game is a practice of imagination to open up worlds through chance, magic, and silliness. the exhibition is still up and all the proceeds support North Bay Organizing Project.

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new moon mediation happens this wednesday and each two weeks, 8:30-9:00 on zoom. register here. we sit, we notice, we practice being free. donation based, as always!

come draw and play! on june 25, at neon raspberry art house, we’ll be playing exquisite corpse. from 4-7. this surrealist game is a practice of imagination to open up worlds through chance, magic, and silliness. the exhibition is still up and all the proceeds support North Bay Organizing Project.

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moon meditations are now happening twice a month, starting tomorrow June 3, come sit, by donation

the body electric, an exquisite corpse drawing show to support north bay organizing project. may 29-june 29, neon raspberry art house, occidental ca.

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i sat down and wrote. the blur. and it came out the blue. and i liked it better because here’s the thing about now.

there is a lot of blur, i mean blue . i often find myself dreaming about climbing steep hills with loose dirt and rocks. small plants. nothing to hang onto. hot sun. or cold sun. but the scrambling is the same. there is a lot of struggle, sliding, knees covered in dirt. a scramble up because that is the way to go.

up, slide down, a little sideways, scramble. slide. pebble. pennyroyal. slide.

this thing, this scramble is what i hear from so many of you. i feel it as i wait in lin…

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moon meditations are now happening twice a month, starting June 3, come sit, by donation

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yesterday on the neighbors porch, the pack of kids chased the pack of dogs who all chased one red ball that they named Fred.

the adults were settled with the lukewarm coffee of a holiday monday. slow, the conversation a little more prone to meandering than life usually allows. and as it does we talked about how tired everyone is, the children are tired, the checker at the grocery store is tired. we are tired. tired. tired.

and in this meandering, the questions arose, as it often does, ‘is this what it feels like to live as things crumble? is this a recession? is this what living with unfolding wars feel like? is this what living under fascism feels like? is this late stage capitalism roiling and bucking? is that this kind of tired? is that what this is…

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neon raspberry art house, occidental ca.

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we live in a moment. we live in a moment where outside the one breadseed poppy is blooming. we live in a moment where on any given thursday i get to sit in meditation with a friend oceans away. we live in a moment where we can and do have to relearn the scrape of the sun across the sky. we live in a moment where what was the staticky voice of rachel carson naming the convergence of how interconnected the natural world is now is amplified and meme in choral resonance with the longer held voices of original people singing this is all our world. here we are.

we live in a moment where when i go to sleep i can hear the voices of people who imagined…

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come sit with us on thursday morning, may 14, at 8:30 am pst, come practice your own gift of attention. sign up here.

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new moon sits have been a wonderful way to touch in with a few of you and practice together much of what i write about here. our next time to sit together is may 14. consider coming and supporting this offering through a donation.

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i try to get up a little earlier than my children to have a few moments of sitting and watching the day begin before it all begins. what begins is breakfast, shoes, hair braiding, looking for the thing that needs to be in the backpack, the endless cataloging of what goes for the rest of the day and the sorting of how, who, when, and where.

there isn’t usually a lot of time left for the why question but i hold that one as i clean up us…

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on the porch this morning, i crammed myself in the one dry spot on the stairs so i could meditate while looking at the oak tree.

the oak tree is a part of why we live here. it is a big part. when we came to look at the land, the house that had been abandoned for many years, it was the oak tree that called us home. we leave things for the oak tree. it cradles the children when the…

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i need to be sitting with people regularly. practicing, noticing, and doing it together. lets experiment! lets sit together for the new moon. let’s get quiet together and see what happens.

do you need some support in this wild moment of the world? consider finding a time to meet with me to find ways that plants, rocks, and presence can let you be here and with our changing world.

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local Petaluma folks, come out! songs of spring: spring herbal workshop, april 23, 5-7 pm, open field farm. together we'll discover spring's most accessible healing plants. you'll learn to identify these allies for supporting liver health and vitality.

i need to be sitting with people regularly. practicing, noticing, and doing it together. lets experiment! lets sit together for the new moon. let’s get quiet together and see what happens.

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i saw an old friend at the beach this weekend. our friendship has this time capsule kind of feel to it because we live far away and because our children happen to be close enough in age that when we do see each other there is this reflection of family life zooming by that staggers me a little bit.

it was a perfect beach day. warm, not so much wind, children splattered with sand, a band of ice cream eaters w…

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i watched him this morning at the beach greet dog after dog, run and jump. chase and chase back. even enjoy the occasionally bossy nip of a herding dog.

i watched him be, in the surprise of a morning spent together close to the waves, the birds, and very little wind. his silly face eager and appreciative.

this is what we need as we head into spring. a kind of openess to change, even holding the possiblility of the pleasure in it.

next week i am teaching a class about the energetics of spring and the herbal practices to support it. i kept thinking this morning at the beach, miraculous and spacious before a day working…look at what happens when its possible to listen, whole worlds open up, inside and outside.

the pillars of working with spring are all around us: moving, nourishing, and letti…

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