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Will-O-Wisp

tasara — Sun, 03 May 2026 23:24:27 +0000

My brain made a practical decision that I would go camping this summer. It just made sense to do that before my coming two week intense of shamanic training. So I found myself unearthing my camping supplies today. Time for a gear check. I used to have a really big tent that I could set … Continue reading Will-O-Wisp →

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Stopping (from falling)

tasara — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 05:21:45 +0000

Free-falling is the implied scenario when people speak of hitting bottom. You kinda can’t have one without the other. But what they don’t tell you, is there are two types of hitting bottom: one is when you hit the bottom hard and everything smashes to pieces, and the other is when the change happens while … Continue reading Stopping (from falling) →

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Back in the Tunnel: (reconstruction)

tasara — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 00:49:21 +0000

There is always, endlessly, more than darkness.

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Gratitude: (the car accident)

tasara — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 02:48:42 +0000

Last night, I miraculously walked away from a five-car accident on the freeway in downtown Seattle.

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Letting Go

tasara — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 02:49:40 +0000

It’s no great effort. It’s no effort at all. It is letting other forces drift on, glide through if need be.It is a sense of whisper movements, not sticking, as our gentle core, more or less condensed, more or less whole, remains in its own rhythmic movement, the movement of life itself. Melodies may pass … Continue reading Letting Go →

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11th Trip to the Redwoods

tasara — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 00:29:27 +0000

When you come here,you may be reminded of movies you’ve seen,books you’ve read.You may take impressive selfies. While you are thinking,your body will feel the weightof the skyscraper-sized,living beings who tower over you.Your body will register the silence,will sense the profundity. You may want to run to your car and turn on some music. You … Continue reading 11th Trip to the Redwoods →

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Sea Hag

tasara — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 00:02:46 +0000

Unfathomable,ancient crone of the sea,broodinginexplicable dark silence.Skies, silent breaths, above her. Near the shore,she boils over,white foam spews on black rock, black rock which itself was spewedeons agohot, coursing, deep from the Mother. This Ancient one does not use words.She growls and foams and pounds. The hill rumbles.No one offers explanation. She takesin the flash … Continue reading Sea Hag →

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Essence

tasara — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 03:52:28 +0000

Trial by trial,stand strong. Witness the layers peelas you hold the mast of your beingyour rockyour youall stripped backto reveal youglistening in the lightunlike anything else. It’s you. There you are,your powercompletely familiarand now impossible to forget.

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Bow Down to the Power Within You

tasara — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 02:42:32 +0000

“Ah, yes. This one,” I said as I bent over the wide rim of my cauldron, bubbling in cool, thick liquid. For months, I’d been charging myself with intention, reaching into the goop, and pulling out instruments of power, with voices of the age, crying, “Find your power!” at my back. I took a good … Continue reading Bow Down to the Power Within You →

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Sacred Found in Holiday Blues

tasara — Fri, 25 Dec 2020 23:35:24 +0000

If you are having a hard time today, whether you are feeling alone or actually alone, I extend my circle to yours, if you allow it. I do this because I have been where you are, many a year, hearing the inner screaming while the forces try to pull me down into a whirlpool of … Continue reading Sacred Found in Holiday Blues →

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