Native Americans call it medicine, as in Bear medicine, Wolf medicine, Eagle medicine—the healing each animal, bird, or other element of nature has to offer if the human chooses to take it in. I call it messages—what the elements of nature can show us in ourselves, highlight for us, alert us to, if we only […]
I was sitting on the deck one morning this past week and heard the thrumming of hummingbirds. I tilted my head back to see a ruby and emerald pair hovering in the air above me, come for one of the feeders hanging from the eaves of the house. (I had heard years ago that if […]
For the past three months, I’ve been watching my two cats adjust to the arrival of a refugee, an 18-year-old cat whose guardian, a close friend of mine, asked me a month before she died to take him in. There are many messages in how all three cats have responded to the change in their […]