I realize in going out into the Wilderness, I am really going in. I love going out to go in – I love it so very much and I feel my heart pulling me to go out into the mountains more and more and more. There is so much to see, so many peaks to…
May 15, 2015 Karen Joy Fletcher I used my grip, grabbing with my pinky first, then wrapping my other fingers around the stick to hold on tight. This gives me my tightest grip. I held with both hands and felt my feet sink into the earth with my soles. As I grabbed, she, on the…
March 2, 2015 Karen Joy Fletcher My practice is Enchantment. When I enter into a state of enchantment, I enter “Narnia”, I enter a magical world, the Faerie world, or as JR Tolkien aptly named it, I enter into Middle Earth. As a child, I loved to play outside. I have a twin sister and…
I am beginning to understand – to understand the alchemy of training, toning, musing with my muscles and what it means to grip, grin and ground and pull as one muscle. So much time is spent floating…floating in our thoughts, floating in worries, floating down the roads in cars, floating over the earth in buildings,…
Beauty. What is Beauty? Do we really know? I recently heard a talk on Beauty and Words in reference to the teachings of the Lord of the Rings. Our world has valued efficiency over Beauty….roads, cars, strip malls, oil rigs, cranes, tankers, concrete, gray, cement, tarmac, box buildings, plastic and packaging of chemicals and life-less,…
They loom tall. They are friendly giants. They stand in silence, and are dark against the shimmering stars of the night sky and the full autumn blood moon eclipse. I inhale, take another inhale and another. Oh the freshness of these trees, their strength, their majesty taken in through my breath, fill my own living…
Greetings Friends! I love being in China, and I LOVE Yunnan! It is definitely one of my favorite provinces. It is a magical place – one where the skies are blue, the clouds a glowing white, the mountains reach for the sky, the water flows clean and clear, and the temples shine with their bright…
Greetings Friends! Like many of you, I am struggling with many feelings, including grief, anger, fear, devastation and great loss after the result of our election. I feel we have missed a most wonderful and powerful opportunity to have Hillary as our chief leader in our country. And instead, I am struggling to come to…
This past weekend was my 2nd time to be a part of the 3-day Night Turtle Dance ceremony in the Olympic peninsula and I am moved to share this potent and magical experience with you! Night Turtle Dance is a ceremony dedicated to honoring and showering our Love and Gratitude to Mother Earth. We do this…
Greetings Friends! Oh so much to share!! One of the many things I’ve been reflecting on while here in China is just how fulfilling each day is. I love the simplicity of waking up knowing I’m going to eat yummy Chinese food ALL day! 😀 And that I get to speak Chinese ALL day too!!…