by Havi Brooks | Nov 30, 2016 | my personal practice
Z is shape of the trail… Z is shape of the trail, the winding zigzagging path I see each morning from where I am camped, here at the end of the world, on the volcanic tablelands at the edge of the eastern Sierras. The clouds here are exquisite, the sky enormous,...
by Havi Brooks | Nov 23, 2016 | my personal practice
Gathering wishes? These are wishes about gathering and about gathering wishes. This is the 384th week of wishing. Nearly seven and a half years. A lot is gathered here. A lot of us have gathered here over the years. We have gathered to wish wishes and seed seeds, we...
by Havi Brooks | Nov 18, 2016 | my personal practice
Reflecting on both the hard and the good in the week that was… This is week 434 of this ritual, and so we chicken. What’s been working? What do I want to play with…. My week can basically be summed up by this Liana Finck cartoon. What has been...
by Havi Brooks | Nov 17, 2016 | my personal practice
Echoing this wish about about Forward and Fierce. It is the month of echoing and oh, there is so much to echo here. If ever there were a time for powerful resonance, now is a good one. Like so many people I am finding myself in a daze since the U.S. elections. A back...
by Havi Brooks | Nov 11, 2016 | my personal practice
Reflecting on both the hard and the good in the week that was… This is week 433 of this ritual, and so we chicken. What’s been working? What do I want to play with…. Fierce Determination — as salve, as quality, as battlecry. And: one day at a...
by Havi Brooks | Nov 9, 2016 | my personal practice
What do we do on dark bleak days? Does it matter which dark bleak days we are talking about? No, because the protocol is the same in all cases of dark bleak days and so we focus on the protocol. And, at the same time… of course we acknowledge all forms of...