Where the birds find one another, they are free to explore the interior of the torso without fear that they will be trapped forever within the metal cage. It speaks to the ability to absorb and process rather than immediately react; to offer comfort without closing the bars and locking…
What is it that connects children across continents, compelling them to pick up a piece of chalk and draw a game that looks remarkably similar despite carrying different names? Is it simply the accessibility of its materials, chalk, a stone, and a patch of pavement available in almost every neighborhood?…
Take a small moment and listen to the images that come to you when you look into his bright eyes. Is he thinking at all? Is he thinking about the road he has already walked, or the one still waiting for him ahead? Maybe he noticed a shadow somewhere in…
Making Space for Solace Some time after the Covid pandemic, I wrote about the world’s need to heal itself.And I raised a question:Who will heal the healers? Returning to that thought now, from another angle, it seems that what the world is searching for today is not only healing, but…
Snow melted and the rains arrived.Empty riverbeds once again welcomed their yearly awakening. The current rises and continues its journey toward freedom, toward merging with the waters of the world. It does not ask what stands in its way. Stones, trees, animals, even entire settlements can be swept away by…
A MOMENT OF TRANSITION Just as our ancestors marked the passage into darkness, there are also rituals that guide us back into the light. Walpurgis Night is one of them, a moment of transition when what once lived in the dark begins to emerge into visibility. It is a time…