by nelle | Jan 18, 2022 | Astrology, Buddhist Teaching, Healing, Nature, Self-Compassion, Time to Dream
I did not go out to see the moon last night as I usually do. Rather I stayed in my warm, comfortable home and felt it stirring in my bones. It seemed to evoke a going within energy, nurturance, and quiet this month – a pull from its Cancerian crabshell to...
by nelle | Aug 20, 2021 | Buddhist Teaching, Healing, Nature
It’s evening, and I’ve come to a lovely little rock island, clad in spruce and cedar. Someone’s used it as a campsite before, but not for a long time. The moss and lichens are untrampled, the tent site sprouted with bunchberry and sarsparilla. Next...
by nelle | Jul 21, 2021 | Cancer, Healing, Nature
I woke up this morning to a message from a friend and client. It read, “Some people just make you feel better when you’re around them. They are sunshine for your soul and medicine for your mind. That’s you my friend.” It was that sweet moment...
by nelle | Jun 21, 2021 | Buddhist Teaching, Healing, Nature, The Sea
Be the ocean. Be ever changing, but always the same. Be simple and transparent with an entire world deep down inside full of odd and interesting creatures. Be calm, be still, but let yourself get wild and lost in a storm from time to time. Have many homes, on many...
by nelle | Apr 14, 2021 | Healing, Nature
As the seasons turn and we find ourselves outdoors in different ways I notice new delights – as though with each transition we are in a new world. New smells, new sights, fresh sounds. I have lived in Madison for almost twenty years and often joke that with each...
by nelle | Mar 5, 2021 | Nature
I can smell the snow The blank white powder that covers the ground. At first It smells of nothing. Then a hint of spring. Frozend bits of rain. The dry dirt of summer. I can smell the snow as it billows out. Clean, clear....
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