Have you noticed it - the steady stream of apologies that flow from the mouths of Women and Girls? If it hasn’t yet caught your attention, stop and listen, for a day, an hour, a few moments and it will. These apologies may appear to flow with ease, but I assure you that is not the case. It took generations and generations of painful conditioning to install this pattern of internalized self-deprecation and self-erasure into the bodies and psyches of our sisters, mothers and daughters.

The Gift of Darkness. A space of quiet, tender stillness in which we meet our deeper selves.

What is it in darkness that we are running from? What precious parts of ourselves are we leaving behind as we do? Tender parts of ourselves waiting for us to welcome them home. Feelings of sadness, shame, loneliness, fear longing to be witnessed and released. Hopes and dreams yearning to express, that we came into the world knowing were possible and had to temporarily forget.

We can return to relationship with darkness and all we have hidden away there. We are made of dark and light, both beautiful, and together they make us whole.

Let’s end the destructive practice of using gas leaf blowers easily, joyfully, together!

Gas leaf blowers emit massive amounts of carbon pollution! In 2020, fossil fuel-powered lawn equipment emitted more than 30 million tons of carbon dioxide, the leading driver of climate change. 

Pollinators need leaves! The trouble with leaf blowers isn’t only their pollution-spewing health consequences. It’s also the damage they do to biodiversity.

Disconnection and polarization are not our natural way and are not what any human truly wants. We would not have survived without an underlying drive towards connection and collaboration. We yearn for it. It is our inherent nature. We have been trained not to notice the abundance of shining examples all around and within but they are there.