May Day
Photo Credit: Lazar Gugleta, Unsplash I love May Day, the first day of the merry month of May. As a child we [...]
Ancestor Message: The False Goal of Safety
Definition of Safe: Protected from or not exposed to danger or risk; not likely to be harmed or lost. [...]
Fools and Nets: Who Survives and How
A fool, a fool. I met a fool i’ the forest, A motley fool. (Jaques, As You Like It, Act 2 Scene 7) If [...]
Meat and Salt: Equinox
When I first began thinking about Shakespeare’s King Lear and arrogance, I looked in the text for the youngest daughter’s response to her father’s [...]
Arrogance
My Shakespearian actor husband, Chuck Wilcox, began his Boulder Colorado Shakespeare Festival career playing Kent in King Lear. Kent is a truth-telling peer and [...]
A Story that Saved my Life
In the 2022 cycle of the Hero/Heroine's journey at Home Again Nancy King commented that she had never been Home until now. I am [...]
Making Honey from My Old Failures
And the golden bees were making white combs, and sweet honey, from my old failures. —Antonio Machado, translation by Robert Bly [...]
The Return of Selkie Boy
In the Hero/Heroine’s Journey the Return is a time of integration on many levels. Jon Wiley offers a new perspective as his Return proves [...]
A New Year’s Deep-hidden Seeds
New Year’s is traditional Goal Setting time, and telling jokes about how soon those resolutions slide away. Since childhood I’ve taken this ritual seriously. [...]
Winter Solstice: Sol Invictus
In the least we see Everything. In the turning The Way shows itself. —D. Malcolm Wells, 2021 Kinnikinnick [...]
