Dog & Cat Nutrition Part 3 of 5
As most pet guardians now spend less time preparing food for themselves and their children it is not surprising that they are less likely to give their animals a varied, unprocessed diet. Many people buy commercial pet food because they honestly believe it is best for their pet, and because it is convenient and affordable. …
In Wildness is the Preservation of the World
Naturalist Henry David Thoreau once wrote, “in wildness is the preservation of the world.” His words resonated with me as I contemplated my life back on the East Coast, in my parent’s house in New Jersey. I wondered what, if any, higher reason I had for coming back to the East Coast after two years…
Visual Meditation
This entry is long. It described one more of those processes in which I discover an issue that is central and comes up again and again. I release the issue or dissolve it thoroughly by doing a process that you have seen before and today I call it a visual meditation. Imagine yourself meditating. In…
How Social Emotional Learning Can Improve Your Life
School is revered as an institution for knowledge. When we think of school, we think about learning our numbers and letters and other brainy facts. Seldom are the words social and emotional associated to it. When we try to consider what “other” learnings we get outside the instructions of the classrooms, however, there are always…
Breathe in Existence…
Yesterday morning I left Anadi working and I ran to the track; I then proceeded to run around it twelve times… I stretched out and ran faster for 200m and then slower for 100 meters, then faster again, round and around I ran in this fashion…. I loved it. The sun shone and the track…
Dog & Cat Nutrition Part 2 of 5
In the first part of this series I started to explore the commercial pet food market and why it can be so difficult to get reliable information on what constitutes a good diet for your cat or dog. Supermarkets now have large sections devoted to selling pet food, but often these are the cheaper brands. …
Where Do Wild and Order Meet?
“Do you know where sex and love meet? Do you know where wild and order meet? Do you know where thoughts and actions meet, where the sun meets the skimming edge of the earth?”… I wrote these words from New Jersey, inside my parent’s house in Ho-Ho-Kus, a town half an hour from New York…
Fear
The nerves, as they heal slowly, going from closer to the spine toward the edges of the body, have come to the skin. Now I experience 24 hours of relentless pain every day. Every touching of the feet is like putting a match there. Some of my friends and family, who do not see it…
My Perimenopausal Years: Uncharted Territory
Lately I have been living in uncharted territory. My female cycle has been really unpredictable and so are my emotions and thoughts. My ‘inner seasons’ are not what they used to be any more and I have been experiencing utter uncertainty and unpredictability. I am writing about this because not many women talk about it…
Samhain Is Here and The Veil Grows Thin
It is that magical day, October 31st, known to most people as Halloween, and known to witches as Samhain. It is the day when we can openly communicate with our ancestors, when the ghosts step out of the shadows, and when the day fades into night with a grey and sullen sky… But why this…
Guide to Barefoot Running (Video)
I have been running all of my life – it feels I was born to run. In the running step I experienced freedom and my true expression. I came to see that I needed to ‘get out of the way of myself’ and let my energy flow through the running step; allow it…
Dog & Cat Nutrition Part 1 of 5
I just shared an article from Dogs Naturally Magazine giving ’10 Simple Rules to Get You Started’ on raw feeding your dog. This prompted me to repost this article that I wrote a while ago on dog and cat nutrition: Let’s start by looking at the commercial food market… The food we feed our pets…