Steps
The small actions that move us forward, even when uncertain. Here we explore conscious action to create motivational momentum for purposeful and soulful movement forward.
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The Threshold Season: What Mud Season Doesn’t Name
The bloodroot isn’t up yet.
That was what I went looking for on my first hike of the season in mid-April. My first hike in months and since receiving CAR-T treatment and spending several weeks in the hospital. I wanted to see if the bloodroot was peeking through in the spot where it always comes up, in the woods near the grassy stretch where the trail bends back toward Lake Champlain at Point au Roche park in very upstate NY. I was a little early. No bloodroot. No trillium. No wildflowers of any kind.…
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Getting Untangled: What My Dog Teaches About Grace
Glimpse Ahead: Sometimes the most profound teachers walk on four legs. In this reflection, I explore what my dog Dahlia has taught me about getting unstuck when life’s leash gets wrapped around our legs. Her graceful approach to untangling offers insights about patience, movement, and the soul’s response to being caught.
Dancing Out of the Tangle
I’m hiking a trail with Jaxyn and Dahlia, my two Springerdoodles, tethered together on their dual leash system. Inevitably, as we navigate roots and rocks and the occasional interesting smell that demands investigation, the leash finds creative ways to wrap itself around legs, under bellies, and through the spaces between eager paws.…
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What We Carry, How We Move: A Soulful Reflection on Steps and Stones
Glimpse Ahead: Every path begins with a step, sometimes chosen, sometimes unconscious. In this reflection, we explore the power of steps: the movements we make in response to what we carry, and how each step shapes the terrain of becoming. Steps are more than motion. They are moments of presence, habit, reaction, resistance, and growth. Whether you’re sprinting forward or pausing, you are moving.
Every Journey Has a First Step
I was daydreaming, driving home on a snowy evening, attentive to the road but zoning out at the same time. And it struck me, one of those roadworthy epiphanies that slips in through the side window of the mind.…