In the yogic tradition I trained in, the ground is the first point of focus. Upon entering a pose, we draw our attention to points of contact with the earth, sensing energy move from the ground into our body, turning the spirals of energy that then fuel the full expression of the asana. Where is…

A Series on Communication After a somewhat difficult morning with our six month old baby who disagreed with us about the level of daylight that should accumulate before starting our day, my husband and I had a rough conversation or two before he left for work at my dad’s business, where he is a senior engineer. …

Some of us who wait, bellies full of dawn, some leaf through the research, dig through the lore, the impressions of the past, the promises of the future… I do none of these things. I don’t know why not. I wait only. I sit with dawn swelling my belly, so large I cannot fold in…

If you survive the journey, the hands of a desert god wave to greet you. First you must trust that there will be water, for you are not of the desert. You are a guest, a stranger: you drink water without knowing where it comes from. Your ancestors wallowed in water. The hands of their…

Hi Campbell, I hope you had a lovely, relaxing holiday break. I am sorry this has taken so long. I have been waiting to hear back from my mentor, Sean Murphy, hoping to send his greetings with my answers. He is an award-winning published author and a trainer of young writers, as well as a…

  July 23rd, 2016, City of Rocks National Monument, Idaho Dried wild onion with our camping pass. Having the first moment for myself for a couple of days, I am breaking the breezy evening peace with country music played over my flat-sounding phone speakers. But after a day spent in the car, making the endless…

We spent the first night of our trip along a tributary of the Green River called Black’s Fork in the southwestern reaches of Wyoming, just short of the Utah border. We pulled off Scenic Byway 530 onto a dirt track worn by oil exploration and drove in a half-mile to a pullout looking toward the…

I started thinking about this today while I was discussing ancient myths with my seventh grade students. When you hear a mythical story, are you knowing the celebrities of yore? Totally. Humans weren’t all of struck by a sudden fascination with larger than life characters when cameras and film are invented- no way! People followed the…