11/27/25 Greetings Creators, Collaborators, Hope-Dealers, Bridge-Builders and Bringers of Light! If you’re new here — welcome. Field Notes is a weekly dispatch of reflection and soul care sent every week. It’s Thanksgiving Day here in America. And this is the first year in many years that I did not make a made-from-scratch pumpkin pie. I distinctly remember when I was living in Tennessee ….when I decided from that day forward I would always make a pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving. This was due to...
16 days ago • 3 min read
11/21/25 Hello, quiet souls finding meaning in ordinary moments. A Note on Gratitude (and a Slow Driver) I didn’t feel inspired when I sat down to write this. No big revelation.No thunderbolt of insight.Just a small memory from my moment on the road. There was a driver in front of me going slower than I wanted. You know that feeling — the tightening, the impatience, the silent wishing they would just move along. And then something unexpected happened. I thought:What if? What if that driver...
22 days ago • 1 min read
11/12/25 Hello, fire-starters, edge-walkers, and audacious hearts! What if? What if you went digging through my blog posts and landed on a post from October 19, 2012?I’ll save you the trouble and share it here — because it’s worthy of a revisit 14 years later. Here's a recap. My gosh, how time flies. Back in 2012, I was just beyond hobby-artist territory — painting, experimenting, and looking for new ways to stretch my creative wings. Somewhere along the way, I stumbled upon a call for...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
11/05/25 Hey there, travelers between worlds — the inner and the outer, the seen and unseen! Entering the Deep, Dark Cave “In order to succeed as a Jedi Knight, one must identify one’s deepest fears and learn to overcome them. As part of his Jedi training, Yoda makes Luke enter the recesses of a dark cave where he will come face to face with himself as he confronts the fearsome apparition of Darth Vadar. When Luke enters the cave, he’s ignorant of the nature of these fears, he doesn’t know...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
10/29/25 Greetings, fellow wild-hearted wanderers, meaning-makers, hope-dealers, light-bringers, and bridge-builders. A song popped into my orbit yesterday. I didn’t realize its full magnitude until I paused with the feeling it stirred in me — a feeling that asked me to linger… listen… breathe… and feel.That quiet, certain knowing: something real is happening here. I had just uploaded my latest mountain stream reel to my Facebook page. When creating a reel, one of the options is to choose...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
10/23/25 Hey there, quiet alchemists, truth-tenders, and rememberers of what matters! quintessence This fascinating term dropped back into my orbit this week. I love being reminded of things I once deeply pondered and now carry within my being. And when I’m reminded of them...is like a spark or a bolt of lighting...a reverberating AHAH moment! This word comes from the Latin words quinta essentia. Quinta being “fifth” and Essentia being “essence”. But what is quintessence? “Ancient and...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
10/17/25 Greetings, brave feelers and quiet seekers….travelers of both the outer world and the inner one. If you were to go to my blog and read the entry I wrote on September 8th, 2024 here is what you would find…. Change Working in the outdoors I've had the pleasure of being witness to change each and every day. How the light hits the river water in the morning, the sounds of insects and birds and the rippling water over rocks. It's easy to notice change when you're in awareness of your...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
10/01/25 Greetings, fellow wanderers, wild-idea dreamers, meaning makers, and seekers of clarity, courage, and quiet joy! I see you. Because I am you… and you are me. “Wherever we insist on pushing our differences on others, we feel separation. We name this separation resistance, laziness, loneliness, depression, anxiety, or some kind of lack in ourselves. Then we claim these as ‘who we are’—I am resistant, I am lazy, I am lonely, I am anxious, I am stupid, I am unappreciated, I am unworthy,...
2 months ago • 3 min read
9/25/25 Greetings, fellow wanderers, wild-idea dreamers, and seekers of clarity, courage, and quiet joy! “What are you cultivating? What are we nurturing in our life? What are we giving our energy, resources, and attention to? Because whatever we are experiencing now is what we have been cultivating up until now.” (excerpt from The Zero Point Agreement—How to be who you already are by Julie Tallard Johnson) This shifts the narrative, doesn’t it? It brings the focus home and shines light on...
3 months ago • 4 min read